adv. [f. CONTROVERSIAL + -LY2.] In a controversial manner; as regards controversy.

1

1682.  2nd Plea Nonconf., Ded. A iij b. Some that are too controversially disposed.

2

1871.  Morley, Voltaire (1886), 251. It would have been controversially futile if he had done so.

3

1882.  Mrs. Pitman, Mission Life Gr. & Pal., 344. We allude to the subject, not controversially, but, [etc.].

4