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English
Etymology
From adjectitious + -ly.
Adverb
adjectitiously (not comparable)
- (dated, rare) In an adjectitious way; additionally.
1851, Edmund de Pentheny, Mr. De Pentheny O'Kelly on Papal Aggression and the Pope:A party will—must necessarily—spring up amongst us in England who have been born and educated Roman Catholics, to protest against and repel all foreign encroachments let them be adjectitiously distinguished as they may,—Papal—ultramontaine—or transalpine,—they are foreign.
1876, Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States:That whatever might have been said en passant or adjectitiously, this was the ground on which the judgment below was rested.
1895, The Federal Cases: Comprising Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Federal Reporter, Arranged Alphabetically by the Titles of the Cases, and Numbered Consecutively:And in such case it makes no difference whether the qualification to the grant be put in adjectitiously and after an absolute previous grant, or whether it be put in previously and as a condition precedent.