parliamentarilyadv.
/ˌpɑːlᵻˈmɛnt(ə)rᵻli/, U.S. /ˈˌpɑrləˌmɛnˈtɛrəli/, /ˈˌpɑrləm(ə)nˈtɛrəli/ In a parliamentary way; in accordance with parliamentary procedure; by parliament; in connection with parliament.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [adverb]
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1626 Notes of Deb. House of Lords 29 Apr. (1879) 150 He was charged parlamentarily and with particulars.
1628 Notes of Deb. House of Lords 14 May (1929) 159 Then the answer wylbe recorded and so parlementarily.
1757 H. Walpole Corr. 5 May (1960) XXI. 86 The late cabinet is not thanked parliamentarily for having lost Minorca.
1768 Grenville in G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. (1854) III. xiv. 265 How do we know, parliamentarily, that Boston is the most guilty of the colonies?
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1822) I. 48 He disliked proceeding parliamentarily in this business.
1888 G. Gissing Life's Morning III. xix. 113 Mr. Baxendale was in London, parliamentarily occupied.
1961 Economist 17 June 1206/2 If Britain does go into the common market, it may soon afterwards be desirable to get the parliamentarily able Mr Soames out of the Ministry of Agriculture.
1990 Church Times 23 Mar. 9/1 Westminster legislation has to be adapted for the Isle of Man, and someone has to shepherd that process parliamentarily.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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