governmentaladj.

1662 Duchess of Newcastle Orations Divers Sorts 86 Governmental Laws were devised by some Usurping Men, who were the greatest Thieves and Robbers.

1744 F. Moore Voy. Georgia 27 The governmental View..was..to strengthen the southern Part of the English Settlements.

1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 171 One part out of seventy-three of all governmental taxes.

1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second Introd. 2 Emigrants..of diversified professions of religion, retiring from the governmental persecutions of the old world.

1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 318 The contribution fonçière, and the recette exterieure are in fact the chief sources of governmental income.

1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clvii. 163 They want to lay down a precedent, that there shall be no examination into governmental misdoings.

1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics xvi. §109. 285 What is the ethical warrant for governmental authority?

1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 663/1 The native Paraguayan gets rather more governmental interference at times than is good for him.

2003 Nation 10 Feb. 26/3 The massive transfer of governmental functions to private contractors has led to a ‘shadow government’ in which private firms have privileged access to power.

1826 S. Austin Diss. Several Fund. Articles Christian Theol. iv. 223 That the propitiation which Christ is made, is the sole meritorious reason, governmentally considered, of this issue of pardon.

1884 19th Cent. July 120 No book governmentally unorthodox was sanctioned.

1918 E. F. Egan War in Cradle of World iii. 37 He went off to make himself fit to associate with the governmentally employed.

2003 Vanity Fair Dec. 284/1 Appellation d'Origine Contrólee, the strict, governmentally regulated classification system used in France since the 1930s.