adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. After the manner, or by means, of revelation or of the Apocalypse.
1731. Bailey, Apocalyptically, by way of revelation.
1830. Coleridge, Lect. Shaks., II. 341. The date apocalyptically deduced … for the commencement of the Millennium.
2. jestingly, So as to reveal what should be concealed.
1845. Bachel. Albany (1848), 296. The women soon reflected how apocalyptically they were arrayed.
