adv. [f. COMMERCIAL + -LY2.] In a commercial manner; from a commercial point of view; as a matter of trade.
1795. Burke, Scarcity, Wks. VII. 414. I consider the stopping of the distillery, œconomically, financially, commercially, medicinally, and in some degree morally too, as a measure rather well meant than well considered.
a. 1845. Hood, Desert-Born, viii. To speak still more commercially.
1883. J. Thornton, in Standard, 27 April, 6/1. The nitric [acid] was commercially pure. There is another chemically pure, and that is the best.