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subsidiarily, adv.|səbˈsɪdɪərɪlɪ| [f. subsidiary a. and n. + -ly2.] In a subsidiary manner or position; subordinately, secondarily. (occas. const. to.)
1603Florio Montaigne i. xxxii, At first sight he addresseth himselfe to this meane, which they never embrace but subsidiarily. 1625Docum. Impeach. Dk. Buckhm. (Camden Soc.) 209 Three onely should speak, subsidiarily one to another. 1694Falle Jersey iv. 112 This Court was first brought in Subsidiarily, when Causes grew too numerous for Catel. 1818H. T. Colebrooke Obligations 141 He is not bound subsidiarily for the remainder, in the event of insolvency of his coheirs. 1852Browning Shelley's Lett. Introd. Ess. (1881) 7 Subsidiarily to the human interest of his work. 1897Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 148 The hundred being but subsidiarily liable. |