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metropolitically, adv.|mɛtrəpɒˈlɪtɪkəlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] 1. As a metropolitan.
1637Bastwick Litany i. 13 If Father William of Canterbury think that I am affraid of him, he is metropolitically mistaken. 1644Laud in Neal Hist. Purit. (1736) III. 205 In all churches, and in all other places where you visit metropolitically. 1834Edin. Rev. LVIII. 479 Visiting metropolitically the body of both universities. †2. As in a mother-state. Obs.
1723H. Rowlands Mona Antiq. Restaurata 78 That the Druids resided Originally and Metropolitically in the Isle of Mona. |