Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SU-PER-STI'TIOUS-LY
SU-PER-STI'TIOUSSU-PER-STI'TIOUS-NESS
SU-PER-STI'TIOUS-LY, adv.
- In a superstitious manner with excessive regard to uncommanded rites or unessential opinions and forms in religion. – Bacon.
- With too much care; with excessive exactness or scruple.
- With extreme credulity in regard to the agency of superior beings in extraordinary events.
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