stationarilyadv.
/ˈsteɪʃn̩ərᵻli/, /ˌsteɪʃnˈɛrᵻli/, U.S. /ˌsteɪʃəˈnɛrəli/ In a stationary manner; so as to be stationary.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [adverb] > in stationary manner
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1670 W. Marshall Answers upon Several Heads Philos. vi. 73 In its larger Orb they allowed it [sc. the star] to be therein carryed sometimes progressively, sometimes retrogradely, and sometimes stationarily.
1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 158 (note) The Barometer remaining stationarily heavy.
1785 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Midland Counties (1790) II. 80 Instead of falling, this way or that, it [sc. the gate] stood stationarily, wherever it was set!
1836 G. W. M. Reynolds Parricide II. ii. 299 For some moments, we remained stationarily, in this deadly opposition.
1872 H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon 535 The usual way of mounting this ‘chime’ is to make the tenor swing,..all the others being stationarily hung from trusses.
1914 Pop. Mech. Dec. 818/1 The machine consists of a stationarily mounted bicycle frame, a handwheel, [etc.].
2001 A.-K. Warzecha & M. Egelhaaf in J. M. Zanker & J. Zeil Motion Vision v. 265 The hummingbird hawkmoth..hovers almost stationarily in front of flowers while sucking nectar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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