bubonically

English

Etymology

From bubonic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

bubonically (not comparable)

  1. In terms of, or by means of, bubonic plague.
    • 1969, Ian Alexander Cameron, Elisabeth Cameron, Dames, page 22:
      Strong-willed and good in a crisis, she was exactly the girl Cornel Wilde needed to lance his plague boil and pull him through when the population of London was being bubonically decimated.
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