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disˈjunctively, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a disjunctive manner or sense; separately; alternatively; adversatively; not in combination.
1590Swinburne Testaments 182 Although the executors bee appointed alternatiuely, or disiunctiuely..both the persons are to bee admitted executors. 1624Fisher in F. White Reply to Fisher 494 Except you eate and drinke, is to be vnderstood disiunctiuely, Except you eate the flesh or drinke the bloud. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 65, I cannot answer the question so generally proposed, but must give my opinion disjunctively. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 227 When singular pronouns..are disjunctively connected, the verb must agree with that person which is placed nearest to it: as, ‘I or thou art to blame’. 1891Welton Logic iv. v. 447 [In a Dilemma] the major [premise] contains a plurality either of antecedents or of consequents, which are either disjunctively affirmed, or disjunctively denied, in the minor. |