Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the manner of an accessory; not as principal, but as a subordinate agent. Also written accessarily).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

Etymologies

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accessory +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • There, the men of Hacim Thaci take charge of the drug and distribute it mainly in Europe and accessorily in the US.

    sarkozy – cia – rothschilds – mafia 2008

  • It became, a needed accessorily to their lifestyle.

    they come and they go impetuousme 2006

  • It is found illogical that the art which contributes in so great a measure to the development of all that is most elevated in man, should produce but accessorily this effect, and make its chief object an aim so vulgar as we imagine pleasure to be.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • It is found illogical that the art which contributes in so great a measure to the development of all that is most elevated in man, should produce but accessorily this effect, and make its chief object an aim so vulgar as we imagine pleasure to be.

    Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • I deliver my ignorance in pomp and state, and my learning meagrely and poorly; this accidentally and accessorily, that principally and expressly; and write specifically of nothing but nothing, nor of any science but of that inscience.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • I deliver my ignorance in pomp and state, and my learning meagrely and poorly; this accidentally and accessorily, that principally and expressly; and write specifically of nothing but nothing, nor of any science but of that inscience.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Orius should be a star not only because it is one (or accessorily a much commoner doggy name than one would expect by chance alone), but because it is a bug.

    Seeds Aside 2009

  • "But is not anyone who is willing for an evil action to occur the cause of that action, or at least an accessorily, and so himself evil?

    Triablogue 2009

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