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arbitrarily, adv.|ˈɑːbɪtrərɪlɪ|
[f. arbitrary + -ly2.]
In an arbitrary manner, at will; a. merely at will, without sufficient reason, capriciously; b. unconstitutionally, despotically.
a1626Davies Quest. Impositions 131 This power of laying on arbitrarily new impositions. 1656Hobbes Six Less. Wks. 1845 VII. 394 The point F is not to be taken arbitrarily. 1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. §2 (ed. 4) 279 The meaning that they arbitrarily affix to a word. 1769Junius Lett. xxxv, Their rights have been arbitrarily invaded by the present House of Commons. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 126 The Bishop of Dunkeld..was arbitrarily ejected from his see. 1882A. Macfarlane Consanguin. 1 The arbitrarily chosen names of substances. |