adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a cumulative manner.
1644. Maxwell, Prerog. Chr. Kings, i. 8. This power is transferred onely cumulatively.
1660. Bond, Scut. Reg., 70. Puritans and other Sectaries … pretend that the Government originally proceedeth, and habitually resideth in the people, but is cumulatively and communicatively derived from them, unto the king, and therefore the people … resuming the Collated power into their own hands again, may transfer it to any other whom they please.
1827. Hare, Guesses (1859), 46. It … does not proceed cumulatively and step by step.
1887. Lowell, Old Eng. Dramatists (1892), 13. A national consciousness, made … cumulatively operative by the existence … of a national capital.
