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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In dialect; as a dialect.

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  • adjective In a dialectal way.

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Examples

  • In the contraction, "questo", becomes "'sto", and then, transforming dialectally the closing vowel in order to make the insult sound more fluid, "'ste",

    Is That Legal?: Justice Scalia and the Quest for Original Meaning 2006

  • The tea should not be allowed to steep for less than 30 seconds or more than about five minutes (a process known as brewing or [dialectally] mashing in the UK): after that, tannin is released, which counteracts the stimulating effect of the theophylline and caffeine and makes the tea bitter (at this point it is referred to as being stewed in the UK).

    All about Tea 1995

  • Nevertheless, knowing dialectally precise Ashkenazi Hebrew is useful in sensing the artfulness of much 19th and 20th Hebrew literature.

    Jewschool David A.M. Wilensky 2010

  • By comparing the texts chronologically and dialectally, the introduction and integration of words can be tracked.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

  • Marckwardt, however, suggests dialectally mixed settlements gradually arriving at local compromises on those everyday terms for which the dialects differed.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3 1975

  • 3 Woodard, The ancient languages of Europe (2008), p.58 (see link): Beyond the aforementioned early fricative reflexes of stops and the ubiquitious dental sibilant /s/, there is orthographic evidence of additional sibilant consonants occuring dialectally.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • 1859, American English, formed from earlier (1817) ‘lickitie’ very fast (irregular formation from ‘lick,’ n., used dialectally in the sense of fast) + split, n.

    “Lickety Split” « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2008

  • 3 Woodard, The ancient languages of Europe (2008), p.58 (see link): Beyond the aforementioned early fricative reflexes of stops and the ubiquitious dental sibilant /s/, there is orthographic evidence of additional sibilant consonants occuring dialectally.

    Fat porkers get sacrificed 2010

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