accusativelyadv.

1743 in tr. Erasmus Familiar Forms Speaking (ed. 25) 152 It is the Dative put Accusatively.

1778 W. Burgh Inq. Belief Christians iii. 323 This, beside the evident nonsense of the assertion, is written accusatively with a preposition.

1812 Crit. Rev. Oct. 395 Here we might conjecture that Mr. Blomfield intended to construe επιχαρμα accusatively after πεπονθα.

1890 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 11 297 Of course we have to reckon with the possibility that these are nominative forms used accusatively.

1921 H. R. Driggs Live Lang. Lessons Teachers' Man. 200 Compound and appositive expressions used accusatively take accusative forms as: They saw John and me. They spoke to us boys.

1976 Anthropol. Linguistics 18 290 The system operates accusatively even though the case marking on noun phrases operates in an ergative paradigm.

1990 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 18 July 10 My suggestion is that we take the accusatively inflected form of the relative pronoun, whom, which has now just about fallen into disuse..and use it for this purpose.

1801 Anti-Jacobin Rev. Mar. 339 Now these people (or those people, as they are accusatively stiled by the critical squadron) are, no doubt, the higher orders just before spoken of.

1893 Middlesex Courier 21 July 7/5 ‘You did not know it five minutes ago,’ smiled Lord John. ‘And had to receive the first intimation of the fact from the public paper,’ said Mrs. Roslyn, rather accusatively.

1916 K. M. Roof Stranger at Hearth viii. 128 The author pounced upon her accusatively. ‘Ah, charming contessa, I believe you are guilty!’

1973 I. L. Horowitz in N. K. Denzin Values Social Sci. (ed. 2) iv. 260 The ‘breakdown of social order’ is spoken of accusatively.

2001 M. Malone First Lady ii. 21 She pointed the Guinness bottle at me accusatively and the crowd turned with a hostile glare in my direction.