commissivelyadv.

1644 C. Culpeper Let. 12 Feb. in 17th-cent. Polit. & Financial Papers (1996) 195 Turning upon them, who have beene either Commissively or Omissively to blame.

1657 J. Thurloe Let. in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) VI. 244 My lord, 'tis beyond dispute, that effectively and commissively your hands are embrued in the blood of thousands.

1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 15 Feb. 459 To..linger out their miserable existence in that parochial grave of morals, and industry, called the workhouse, which those who omissively or commissively skinned them, have prepared for their bones.

1852 A. De Morgan Let. 22 Jan. in R. P. Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 322 You tell J. Graves, not commissively, ‘please to show’, but permissively, ‘you may show’ this letter to Professor De Morgan.

1965 R. J. Nertney Field Eval. & Control of Personnel Behavior 20 The ‘documentary’ error involves failure to log or record data in the omissive sense and improper logging or recording commissively.

2003 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 66 578 In order to speak commissively of one's intentions, values and the like, one must reveal them in such a way that it is understood that one also affirms them.