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inˈcongruously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an incongruous manner; inconsistently; inappropriately; incoherently.
1641Clarendon Ess., Tracts (1727) 228 The excellency of those pious fathers have intitled that age, how incongruously soever, to be looked upon as the primitive time. 1744Berkeley Siris §278 Nature..may not improperly and incongruously be styled the life of the world. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 715 There was a low muttering delirium, in which the patient spoke incongruously. 1847Disraeli Tancred ii. xiv, Never were men more incongruously grouped. 1884Law Times LXXVIII. 77/2 It shows incongruously beside the more prosaic business of the law.
†b. Gram. With violation of concord, ungrammatically. Obs.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 382 They speak of some towns called the Lacones, which retain yet, and vulgarly speak the old Greek, but incongruously. a1684Knatchbull Annot. Tr. 56 (T.) Saying, that Luke..writ incongruously; when, in truth, he is acknowledged by all expositors too knowing in the Greek to commit such a solecism.
†c. Geom. So as not to coincide. Obs.
1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 183 If they be incongruously applied, they will, as all other crooked lines, touch one another..in one point only. |