adv. [f. prec.] In a bastard or spurious manner; with pretence or simulation; falsely.
1755. Johnson, Bastardly, in the manner of a bastard; spuriously.
a. 1818. in Todd s.v., The deposition … confessing that the child had been spuriously passed upon Virginius for his own.
1845. Bailey, Festus (ed. 2), 83. How faith and fancy, in the mind of man, Have spuriously mingled.
1879. Trollope, in 19th Cent., Jan., 39. She who is made interesting by exhibition of bold passion [will] teach others to be spuriously passionate.
b. spec. in Bot.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 83. In Amelanchier the simple ovaria are spuriously 2-celled.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., 547. Ovary inferior…, 1-celled, or spuriously 3-celled.
1872. Oliver, Elem. Bot., II. 133. The floral receptacle, which develops around, and adnate to the carpels, so that they become united into a spuriously syncarpous pistil.
