adv. rare. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  † 1.  In continuous course or succession. Obs.

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1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 1380. This … empire … hath … beene alwaies hereditarie, from grandfather to father, from father to sonne, and so cursiuely in that manner.

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  2.  In cursive characters.

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1833.  G. S. Faber, Recapit. Apostasy, 86. The name uncially expressed ΑΠΟϹΤΑΤΗϹ, or cursively expressed ἀποστάτης.

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1885.  E. M. Thompson, in Encycl. Brit., XVIII. 149/1. Facsimiles of the cursively written papyri.

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