adv. [f. TRUNCATE a. + -LY2.] In a truncate manner or form; in quots., in a mutilated form, with omission of something essential.

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1579.  Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 62. Augustines wordes, not truncately and by peece meale rehearsed nor altered. Ibid. (1583), Defence, Answ. to Pref. 62. The doctors you quote without iudgment fraudulently, falsly, truncately, and otherwise abusiuely.

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