adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an adoptive manner; by way of adoption.
1844. Maitland, Dark Ages, 482. For it is one thing to be so [i.e., one with God] adoptively, and another to be so substantially.
1844. B. Thorpe, Ælfrics Hom., I. 259. God, the Father Almighty, has one Son naturally, and many adoptively [A.Sax. gewiscendlice].