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mercurially, adv.|mɜːˈkjʊərɪəlɪ|
[f. mercurial a. + -ly2.]
1. In a mercurial or lively manner. rare.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 229 He [Crichtoun] would keep in that miscelany discourse of his such a climacterical and mercurially digested method, that [etc.].
2. By a mercurial process.
1881Abney Photogr. 36 The metal plate is by contrast dark when compared with the mercurially-developed image. 1893Westm. Gaz. 23 June 4/2 Fitted into holders of solid silver, mercurially gilt. |