different between apery vs apely

English

ape +? -ery

apery (countable and uncountable, plural aperies)

A place where apes are kept.
- 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies Chapter 4
  If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
The practice of aping; an apish action.
- Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.

From ape +? -ly.

apely (comparative more apely, superlative most apely)

Of, relating to, or characteristic of apes; simian.
- 1879, The Popular science monthly: Volume 15 - Page 69:
  There is now a danger, we presume, that people may do such things by the rules of Darwinism, but the author fails to inform us whether we are likely to select servants and intimate friends because they do, or because they do not, present in their faces and on their persons indications of their apely origin?

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