auxiliarly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From auxiliar +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

auxiliarly (comparative more auxiliarly, superlative most auxiliarly)

  1. By way of help.
    • 1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter XVI, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, [], London: [] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas [], →OCLC, page 234:
      [E]very one of them as they ſavv moſt advantageous to them, took and left the Britiſh Lavves and Cuſtoms or ſome of them, and in ſo doing vvere but vviſe in their Generation, and both ſerved themſelves of, and ſecure themſelves by, the Providences God gave them auxiliarly to them, []

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