adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In appositive construction, in apposition.
1881. Whitney, Mixt. in Lang., 23. Genitives of different kinds … those used more attributively and those used more appositively.
1883. H. M. Kennedy, trans. Ten Brink’s E. E. Lit., 19. Substantive expressions which, making prominent a characteristic, a quality of the person or thing meant, are put appositively beside the real designation, and often take its place.
