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terminally, adv.|ˈtɜːmɪnəlɪ|
[f. terminal a. + -ly2.]
†1. In relation to, or within, a term or limited period. Obs.
1657Gaule Sapientia Justif. 89 That Death which reigned from Adam to Moses,..if you take the time of Deaths reigning to be betwixt them two, terminally and exclusively.
2. a. At the end or extremity.
1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Orr's Circ. Sc. I. Org. Nat. 182 The..terminally confluent parapophyses. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 460 Female flowers..consisting of a naked axis..bearing the erect ovules terminally or laterally.
b. Comb. with an adj. in sense 4 b of terminal a.
1973Sci. Amer. Sept. 56/1 One of the terminally sick patients has been given a change of scene by moving his bed to the garden. 1976M. Millar Ask for me Tomorrow (1977) iv. 37 This was Aragon's first time in the presence of a terminally ill person.
3. Every term, once a term.
1868Times 26 Sept. 3/5 No house [at Oxford] can be licensed until it has been inspected by the delegates, and lodgings must be visited by them terminally. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 366/2 An annual rent is paid by the undergraduate..in some cases quarterly, triennially, or terminally. 1896Oxford Univ. Gaz. 10 Nov. 110/1 The Scholarship is of the annual value of {pstlg}45, payable terminally and tenable for two years. |