septentrionally
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]septentrional + -ly
Adverb
[edit]septentrionally (not comparable)
- (obsolete, nonce word) northerly
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- if they be powerfully excited, and equally let fall, they commonly sink down and break the water at that extreme whereat they were septentrionally excited
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “septentrionally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)