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promiscuously, adv.|prəʊˈmɪskjuːəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a promiscuous manner; without distinction, discrimination, or order; indiscriminately; at random, in confusion.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 100 These [coins] passed promiscuously as mony from one to another. 1641Wilkins Math. Magick i. xvii. (1648) 124 Both which names are sometimes used promiscuously. 1693Lond. Gaz. No. 2888/2 The body of their Fleet lay promiscuously to Leeward of one another. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. v. 119 Horsemen and infantry plunged in promiscuously. 1840Macaulay Ess., Clive (1887) 542 The dead bodies, a hundred and twenty-three in number, were flung into it promiscuously and covered up.
†b. colloq. Without ‘standing upon the order of one's going’; unceremoniously; promptly. Obs.
1609Rowlands Knaue of Clubbes 37, I bad him vanish most Promiscuously, And not Contaminate my company.
2. colloq. Casually, incidentally.
1812Sporting Mag. XL. 153 Witness promiscuously found the bottle..amongst some rubbishing things, quite empty. 1843I. F. Romer Rhone, Darro, etc. II. 300 ‘Let us go to Africa!’ exclaimed a friend of mine quite promiscuously (as the Cockneys have it). 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. 16 The stone was dropped promiscuously by a flying dragon, and picked up by a passing peasant. |