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superstitiously

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su·per·sti·tious  (spr-stshs)
adj.
1. Inclined to believe in superstition.
2. Of, characterized by, or proceeding from superstition.

super·stitious·ly adv.
super·stitious·ness n.
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Adv.1.superstitiously - in a superstitious manner; "superstitiously he refused to travel on Friday the 13th"


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But once Tashtego's senior, an old Gay-Head Indian among the crew, superstitiously asserted that not till he was full forty years old did Ahab become that way branded, and then it came upon him, not in the fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife at sea.
She seemed to be in depressed spirits; and she spoke superstitiously, for the first time in Cecilia's experience of her.
Later on, when he recalled that time and all that happened to him during those days, minute by minute, point by point, he was superstitiously impressed by one circumstance, which, though in itself not very exceptional, always seemed to him afterwards the predestined turning-point of his fate.
 
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