imperativelyadv.

1586 W. Bullokar Pamphlet for Gram. 36 But, Let, uzed imparatiuly or permissiuly gouerning an accusatiu-cas..semeth too hau a nominatiu-cas of the second persn vnderstanded.

a1631 J. Downe Treat. True Nature & Definition of Justifying Faith (1635) 104 The word..may be translated imperatiuely, thus, Be thy sinnes pardoned; as if it were in the third person plurall of the Coniunctiue mood.

1644 S. Rutherford Lex, Rex 256 Aben Ezra, and Isidorus read the words imperatively.

1705 J. Hog Casuistical Ess. Lord's Prayer 74 They Translate the Words Imperatively, which are as clearly in the Indicative mood.

1768 J. T. Atkyns Rep. Cases Chancery 3 166 The words shall and may in general acts of parliament, or in private constitutions, are to be construed imperatively, they must remove them.

1836 C. Leo Hebrew Gram. iii. i. 250 The verb in the first mood, used for the past tenses, can only be rendered imperatively, when connected with the leading imperative by Vav copulative.

1882 B. F. Westcott Gospel according to St. John 135 If ‘do’ be taken imperatively in v. 38, the connexion is [etc.]. If it be taken indicatively, then the answer is [etc.].

1926 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 11 33 A preceding clause is incomplete and intimately connected with the second, or with the subjunctive mood, except the present used imperatively.

2008 F. James C. Lamb, Coleridge & Wordsworth iv. 108 The verb ‘Behold’ also encodes an uncertainty about Coleridge's relationship to others. The reader is left unsure..whether the verb is acting imperatively.

1593 Mr. Butler Learned & Notable Serm. 3 Our Sauiour Christ presently..speaking Imperatiuely.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VII. 283 The Church..does not proceed supplicatorily..but..imperatively, authoritatively.

1681 J. Bairdy Balm from Gilead 28 As it is proper to the Spiritual Officers of the House of God..elicitively to act in the exercises of Religion; so it is not incompetent to the Civil Ruler to command, and put forth his authority about the same imperatively.

a1710 G. Bull Serm. (1713) I. 6 The Words, though they are deliver'd imperatively, yet are a plain Promise.

1789 R. Guinness in Coll. Poems I. 86 Fashion's laws, imperatively, say, Revel all night.

1814 Port Folio Apr. 301 His hatred of oppression..imperatively silenced in his breast all those emotions of love with which she invariably inspired every other beholder.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxxiii. 284 Felix said, imperatively, ‘Leave him there’.

1950 Times 30 Sept. 5/7 The answer..comes to him sternly and imperatively.

2015 D. A. Wilson Interpreting Land Rec. 328 The object of ‘construction’ of a will is to interpret and give effect to a will if possible unless the language is such as to imperatively require the whole will to be rejected.

1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. i. 42 A remedy, which..the circumstances of the times imperatively required.

1879 Contemp. Rev. 34 695 One change is imperatively called for—the getting rid of the incubus of aldermen in the city and borough councils.

1919 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law July 420 It is considered to be imperatively necessary to de-louse the clothes of all prisoners of war.

1955 C. I. Lewis in Ethics 67 205/2 The peculiarly human kind of life is imperatively social.

2000 M. Kneale Eng. Passengers (2001) x. 270 I am most sorry to intrude upon you in this way, but there is something that you must, imperatively, be told.

2014 G. G. Fuster Emergence of Personal Data Protection as Fund. Right of EU viii. 258 Any translation must imperatively accept a degree of departure from the original.