adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a chaotic manner.
1834. Byron, Def. Transf., I. ii. 318. It [matter] is a stubborn substance, And thinks chaotically, as it acts.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 19. Some huge foolish Whirligig, where kings and beggars … and stars and street-sweepings were chaotically whirled.
1858. De Quincey, Autobiog. Sk., Wks. II. i. 28, note. The life … has been thus chaotically mis-narrated.
