secondarilyadv.

c1475 Partenay 512 Raymonde swere agayn secundarilie, That neuer no day forsworne wolde he be.

1477 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 503 Snaylwell, by my grauntefadrys will onys and by my fadris will sceconderely [sic], is entaylyd to þe issyw off my fadrys body.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxviii He hadde of theym victory. And secundaryly he faught with theym vpon y^e Foorde called Epifoorde.

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Mij^v Dystylle them secondarely in a newe glasse in balneo marie.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxxv. 263 The Rosemary floureth twise a yeare, once in the spring time of the yeare, and secondarily in August.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Psalms lxvii. Comm. Other Apostles of divers tribes sent first to the Jewes, secondarily to the Gentiles.

1534 W. Turner tr. J. von Watt Of Olde God & Newe sig. Lvj Secundaryly I fynde the saide ceremonies on euery syde sundry & vnlike among theym selues.

1534 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 128 And secondaryly, if such lycence..were suffered it should be the occasions of many frays, of much robory and bribery.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 209 They haue committed false report,..secondarily they are slanders,..thirdly they haue verefied vniust thinges, and to conclude, they are lying knaues. View more context for this quotation

1604 N. Bownd Med. for Plague iii. 26 Secondarily, if wee should neglect to pray for them.

1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Secondarily or secondly, ten tweeden.

1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. viii. 196 Whereupon secondarily and accidentally will follow their falling away from their Ecclesiasticall office and function.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. iii. i. 21 She sees more clear Then we that see but secondarily.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 732 Our Knowledge here is not After Singular Bodies, and Secundarily or Derivatively From them; but in order of Nature, Before them, and Proleptical to them.

1690 E. Stillingfleet Serm. xxvii, in Wks. I. 441 Those who had the Apostolical Office committed to them, (whether Primarily by Christ himself, or Secondarily by the Apostles, as Timothy and Titus and others) had great need of this Apostolical Spirit.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. §3. 371 An Action that is not automatic primarily or secondarily.

1803 T. Beddoes Hygëia III. ix. 11 It would be more exact to consider him as nervous because he has been gouty. He is only secondarily nervous.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 459 The large medullary rays have originated secondarily from the primary ones.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. lviii^v Wherfore thou must first loue god princypally, and thy neyghbour secondarely.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 61 Thereupon doe the Fathers..take that place of Ezekiel..to be primarily intended of the last resurrection, and but secundarily of the Jews restitution.

1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 51 The godly seed of the woman shall secondarily partake of this triumph.

1813 Leach Parl. Deb. 15 Feb. in Examiner 22 Feb. 116/2 An office which was primarily judicial and secondarily political.

1899 J. F. Hurst in Amer. Jrnl. Theol. Oct. 680 The first Prayer Book [of 1549] was based primarily, on the old Latin service-books, and secondarily on Archbishop Hermann's Consultation.