defectivelyadv.

1604 T. Bilson Suruey Christs Sufferings 403 If defectiuely we name one part for the whole, which some men vse to auoid length of speech, and the number of particulars.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. Proeme 154 Fabius Maximus is reprehended by Polybius for defectiuely writing the Punicke warres.

1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord Pref. sig. Cii Because..the Duties..[are] so Defectively performed.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber iv. 69 Without this..the Performance will come out..somewhere defectively, unsurprizing to the Hearer.

1788 A. Hamilton et al. Federalist I. xix. 117 The small body of national troops..is defectively kept up, badly paid, infected with local prejudices, and supported by irregular and disproportionate contributions to the treasury.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 274 To carry it into execution, though defectively made.

1861 D. G. Rossetti tr. Dante Vita Nuova in Early Ital. Poets ii. 282 It seemed to me that I had spoken defectively.

1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 378/1 Was he simply a clever fellow, enchanting to the defectively literate, but destined, in the end, to go below the salt?

1978 T. Goudriaan Māyādivine & Human i. 9 The place where Indra is called a wife or woman..is very obscure; one of those many allusions to unknown or very defectively known myths.

2011 Yale Law Jrnl. 121 166 It would be cheaper to pay compensatory damages than to remedy a defectively designed automobile.