disjunctivelyadv.
In a disjunctive manner or sense; separately; alternatively; adversatively; not in combination.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adverb] > individually (not collectively)
sunderlyeOE
sundryOE
sundrilyOE
sunderlepesOE
serelepesc1175
serelya1375
severinglya1390
sunderlingc1390
properlya1393
serea1400
severally1399
departinglya1425
diviselyc1449
severately1470
sunderwisea1550
separately1552
disjunctively1590
semovedly1593
distributively1597
particular1599
dividedly1607
dividually1631
separatively1789
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adverb]
sunderlyeOE
sundryOE
asundera1325
discretelyc1475
sundrily1487
severally1541
sunderwisea1550
separately1552
sejunctly1586
disjunctively1590
sejunctively1602
severedly1605
abstractivelya1651
incommunicately1664
detachedly1797
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 182 Although the executors bee appointed alternatiuely, or disiunctiuely..both the persons are to bee admitted executors.
1624 Fisher in F. White Reply to Fisher 494 Except you eate and drinke, is to be vnderstood disiunctiuely, Except you eate the flesh or drinke the bloud.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 156 I cannot answer the question so generally proposed, but must give my opinion disjunctively.
1824 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 227 When singular pronouns..are disjunctively connected, the verb must agree with that person which is placed nearest to it: as, ‘I or thou art to blame’.
1891 J. Welton Man. Logic iv. v. 447 [In a Dilemma] the major [premise] contains a plurality either of antecedents or of consequents, which are either disjunctively affirmed, or disjunctively denied, in the minor.
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