adv. [f. CONVERSE a.2 + -LY2.] In the converse manner or order; as the converse; by conversion.

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1806.  Hutton, Course Math., I. 278. Conversely, if the two angles ABC, ABD, on both sides of the line AB, make up together two right angles, then CB and BD form one continued right line CD.

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1845.  McCulloch, Taxation, Introd. (1852), 15. The greater the expenses of governments, the deeper must they encroach on the incomes or capitals of those who pay taxes, and conversely.

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1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 325. A thing is not seen because it is visible, but conversely, visible because it is seen.

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1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 491. Succeeding one another from above downwards or conversely.

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