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periodically, adv.|pɪərɪˈɒdɪkəlɪ|
[See -ly2.]
At regularly recurring or definite intervals; also loosely, from time to time, every now and then.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xvii. 149 They commonly doe both proceed unto perfection, and have legitimate exclusions, and periodically succeed each other. a1745W. Broome (J.), There will be a regular flux and reflux..every eight hours periodically. 1825McCulloch Pol. Econ. ii. v. 198 It may even be doubted, whether Turkey and Egypt are upon an average much less populous for the plagues which periodically lay them waste. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. vii. 51 Over this summit the glacier is pushed, and has its back periodically broken.
b. nonce-use. In a magazine or ‘periodical’.
1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 315 The crime is not the writing mischievously, or shamefully, but of writing periodically. |