adv. [f. CURSORY a. + -LY2. The L. cursōriē was in early use.] In a cursory manner; in passing; hastily; without attention to details.
[1549. Latimer, 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 78. I wyll runne it ouer cursorie, ryppyng a lytle the matter.]
1565. Jewel, Def. Apol. (1611), 128. Thus cursorily to passe it ouer.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1315. Cursarily and by the way to annexe hereto such things as cary some probability.
1685. Boyle, Effects of Mot., Advt. 2. While he cursorily read over the Tract.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, III. 23. I have already cursorily mentioned some of the products of nature.
1804. Young, in Phil. Trans., XCV. 84. Principles which he has but cursorily investigated.
1861. Goschen, For. Exch., 20. An allusion was cursorily made to the expenditure in travelling.
