adv. [f. prec. + -LY.] In a way that is contiguous; in contact.
1639. G. Daniel, Ecclus. xliii. 24. Behold the Raine-Bow, and admire to see Transparant Shadowes mixt Contiguouslie.
1679. Dryden, Ovid’s Met., I. 30. The next of kin contiguously embrace.
1702. Sir J. Holt, in Mod. Reports, XII. 510. If a river run contiguously between the land of two persons.
1822. Imison, Sc. & Art, I. 296. Forty-four such eggs … laid contiguously in a right line.
