adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] After the manner of the ascending rows of seats in an amphitheater.

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1716.  Town Talk, No. 4 (1790), 41. Seats for the audience amphitheatrically built.

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1881.  Chr. Treas., 434. Beyond the white walls of the Seraglio … rise amphitheatrically … the houses of Stamboul.

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