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occasionally, adv.|əˈkeɪʒənəlɪ|
[f. occasional + -ly2. Cf. L. occāsiōnāliter, F. occasionnellement.]
†1. By chance, casually, accidentally. Obs.
1622Relat. Eng. Plant. Plymouth in Arber Pilgrim Fathers (1897) 446 The house was fired occasionally by a spark that flew into the thatch. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 64 Casting mine eye occasionallie on this Varlet's Postscript, I chanced to light..on the Allegations of two Autors. 1718Atterbury Serm. (1737) III. 191 He appeared to them..sometimes at places where he had before appointed to meet them, sometimes occasionally, as they were travelling on the way.
2. On, for, or with a view to, some particular occasion; on certain particular occasions; when occasion arises. Obs. exc. dial.
a1632G. Herbert Priest to Temple xxvii, He..intermingles some mirth in his discourses occasionally, according to the pulse of the hearer. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §22. 393 Philo hereupon, occasionally cites this Remarkable Testimony of Philolaus the Pythagorean. 1756Johnson Life Browne Wks. IV. 592 A treatise which seems to have been occasionally written. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 18 The Rods were in three Pieces..which screwed together occasionally. a1791Wesley Dress v. i. Wks. 1822 IX. 48 Our Saviour once occasionally said, ‘Behold they who wear gorgeous apparel are in kings' courts’. 1881Leic. Gloss., Occasionally, upon occasion arising; if necessary.
†b. On the occasion of something else happening or being done, incidentally. Obs.
1657Heylin Hist. Ref. I. 20 Whose Fortunes and Estates have been occasionally and collaterally confirmed in Parliament. Ibid. 24 Reformations which were made occasionally in that faulty Church. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 556 As one intended first, not after made Occasionally. 1684Scanderbeg Rediv. iii. 25 heading, Wherein occasionally is given a Brief Account of the Reign of King Casimir.
3. Now and then, at times, sometimes.
1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. 449 Such as these..shall wee occasionally encounter withall, in our readings. 1751R. Paltock Peter Wilkins (1884) II. xvii. 188 To sweep round the whole country, and take all the towns in our way, and occasionally enter the middle parts, as the towns lay commodious. 1814D. Stewart Hum. Mind II. i. §3. 89 All of these writers have..been occasionally misled in their speculations. 1884Pae Eustace 7 Occasionally..his eye..had rested on the motionless form of a salmon-fisher. |