Obsolete form of grizzly (“type of bear”).
In a horrible or terrible manner; in a terrifying way.
From Middle English grisely, grysly, grissliȝ, griselich, grislich, from Old English grisliċ (“grisly, horrible; dreadful, horrid”), from grīsan (“to shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified; ...
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