invertedlyadv.

1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ sig. Vu2 Lyrinensis tells them, that the authors of the opinions are judged Catholiques, but the followers thereof are Hereticks; the Masters are pardoned, but the Scholars condemned. Peradventure we may invertedly say, that the first projectors and prime leaders are more culpable than those that take after them.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 99 'Tis but to live invertedly, and with thy Head unto the Heels of thy Antipodes.

1712 H. Curzon Universal Libr. I. 78 Sometimes 'tis the..Words, which being read invertedly, or backward, carry the same exact sense as forward, as Lewd did I live, Evil I did dwell.

1798 H. Ellis Hist. & Antiq. St. Leonard Shoreditch i. 48 A list was inserted in a letter to the vicar..who returned an answer..having previously dashed his pen invertedly through the names.

1806 R. Patterson Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (rev. ed.) II. xv. 183 The lens..by refraction, depicts them invertedly on the screen.

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. xxii. 287 Miss Templeman..talked up at Elizabeth-Jane invertedly across her forehead and arm.

1917 Harvard Law Rev. 30 439 The administrative law which we have invertedly developed.

2003 Observer 7 Dec. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 20/2 Olivella makes an invertedly snobbish point of highlighting the high street supermarket brand name.