Collaterally

adv. [f. COLLATERAL + -LY².] In a collateral manner or position.

  1.  Side by side; by the side; at or toward the side, sideways.

1432–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 331. That londe hathe on the southe este to hit Spayne by the sailenge of thre dayes from hit as colaterally.

1555.  Eden, Decades W. Ind., III. VIII. (Arb.), 171. It hath collaterally on the lefte hande the montaines of Daiguani.

1641.  Wilkins, Math. Magick, I. vii. (1648), 51. When they [pullies] are placed collaterally.

1672.  Grew, Anat. Plants (1682), 8. The Sap … issues … in a direct Line from the Root into the Plume: but collaterally, into the Lobes also.

1789.  G. Keate, Acc. Pelew Isl., 109. Covered with bamboos laid and fastened down collaterally.

1841.  Borrow, Zincali, II. 119. To give the names of the most common … objects in the Hungarian and Spanish Gitano, collaterally with their equivalents in the Moorish Arabic.

  2.  fig. Aside from the main course, subject, purpose, etc.; by the way, secondarily, indirectly.

1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, I. i. 1. The latter serueth directly for my purpose … the former … tendeth thereto but collaterally.

1682.  Dryden, Pref. Relig. Laici (Globe), 187. I have … created to myself two sorts of enemies; the Papists … more directly … and the Fanatics more collaterally.

1863.  Kinglake, Crimea, I. ii. 27. To redress a public wrong which chances to be collaterally hurtful to his own State.

1875.  Gladstone, Glean., VI. lxxvi. 182. Collaterally sustained by three other propositions.

  3.  In a manner attendant or parallel; co-ordinately, side by side (with).

1800.  Colquhoun, Comm. Thames, vi. 237. The general influence of the design extended collaterally to all Branches of Trade.

1855.  [Miss Cobbe], Ess. Intuitive Morals, 33. We find, collaterally with the evidence of care for our enjoyment, another series of providential arrangements tending … to the encouragement of virtue.

  4.  By way of collateral relationship.

1602.  Return fr. Parnass., IV. i. (Arb.), 51. The lands do collaterally descend.

1880.  Muirhead, trans. Rules of Ulpian, v. § 6. Formerly marriage could not be contracted between persons related collaterally as far as the fourth degree.