FOREIGNLY
Etymology
Adverb
foreignly (comparative more foreignly, superlative most foreignly)
In a foreign manner.
Anagrams
• forelying
Source: Wiktionary
FOREIGN
For"eign, a. Etym: [OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr. L.
foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and
E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose, Forfeit, Forest, Forum.]
1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a
foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton.
2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging
to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign
language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury.
Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never
breed. Milton.
3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not
pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not
agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the
purpose; foreign to one's nature.
This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift.
4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]
Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad
and died. Shak.
Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a
foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt
due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects,
or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in
some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee
process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell.
– Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in
another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and
payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several
other points of view, the different States of the United States are
foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4. Kent. Story.
– Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the
body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without.
– Foreign office, that department of the government of Great
Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.
Syn.
– Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous;
extrinsic.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition