judicially

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adverb

In a judicial manner.

UncommonScrabble 23

Meanings

adverbjudicially (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIn a judicial manner.

    Persons Judicially cited, are ſometimes wont, by a Non-Appearance in Court, to contemn the Judges Authority; and thereby to render themſelves contumacious'

    1726, John Ayliffe, “Of Contumacy, and the Several Kinds thereof”, in Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. Not only from the Books of the Canon and Civil Law, but likewise from the Statute and Common Law of this Realm. …, London: Printed for the author, by D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe in the Middle Temple Cloysters, James and John Knapton in St Paul's Churchyard, Richard Standfast in Westminster-Hall, William and John Innys at the West End of St Paul's, Francis Clay and Daniel Brown without Temple Bar, London, and Simon Martin, bookseller in Leicester, →OCLC, page 196

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ey-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂óyu
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂yew-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂yéwos
  5. Proto-Italic*jowos
  6. Latiniūs
  7. Proto-Indo-European*deyḱ-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*déyḱs
  9. Latiniūdex
  10. Latiniūdicō
  11. Latiniūdicium
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  14. Latiniūdiciālis
  15. Englishjudicial
  16. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  17. Proto-Germanic*līką
  18. Englishjudicially

From judicial + -ly.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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