Meanings
adverbpromissorily (not comparable)
- not comparableIn a promissory manner.
Nor was he obliged by oath unto a strict observation of that which promissorily was unlawful
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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