adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an anomalous manner, irregularly, in a way at variance with due order.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. v. (1686), 195. Eve anomalously proceeded from Adam.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 91. It is better that the whole should be imperfectly and anomalously answered, than [etc.].
1858. Froude, Hist. Eng., III. xii. 80. The separate translations, still anomalously prohibited in detail, were exposed freely to sale in a single volume.
