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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1651
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Mankly, adv. [Mank a.] Imperfectly, defectively, incompletely. —1651 T. Wood Dead-man's Testament 16.
He had both mankly and confusedly digested them being called by God from hence befoir he had revised them
