adv. [f. CONVENTIONAL + -LY.]

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  1.  In a conventional manner; according to conventional rule or usage.

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1791–1823.  D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1859), II. 121. A series of pantomimists, who taught action conventionally to represent words.

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1841.  J. R. Young, Math. Dissert., i. 8. The purpose for which they are conventionally introduced into algebraic notation.

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1883.  Harper’s Mag., Jan., 246/2. She … would not talk of him now, save conventionally.

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  2.  nonce-use. In a way that belongs to political convention or assembly.

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1839.  Fraser’s Mag., XIX. 127. He lived … with the revolution, revolutionally; with the convention, conventionally; with the directory, directorially.

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