orallyadv.

1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. I. i. v. 30 The priest did sacrifice, and orally devour it whole.

1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite (1631) 48 That which is externally delivered in the Sacrament, and orally received by the Communicant.

1893 Church Times 17 Feb. 164/4 It is the duty of every Catholic to be present every Lord's Day at the offering of the Eucharist, whether he communicates orally or in the prayers only.

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 18 May 10/7 Before ‘pas’ was administered (orally) to the 22 patients ‘every possible form of treatment had been tried for five to 27 months without the slightest success,’ the report said.

1976 Nature 5 Aug. 490/2 There is a reversal of the covering response by Lytechinus variegatus when it is inverted; thus, material held on the aboral surface is quickly moved orally by inverted animals.

2001 F. Popcorn & A. Hanft Dict. Future 213 This innovation could be used to deliver drugs through the skin, including new substances..that are destroyed by digestion and thus cannot be taken orally.

1666 J. Tillotson Rule of Faith iii. ix. §2 The faith of the Jews was not delivered to them orally, but by writing.

a1676 M. Hale Hist. Common Law (1713) iv. 61 Oral tradition..were incompetent without written monuments to derive to us the original laws, because they are of a complex nature, and therefore not orally traducible to so great a distance of ages.

1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα v. 88 Without..Language, mankind would have nothing but Interjections with which to communicate, orally, any of their feelings.

1820 N. Amer. Rev. July 215 It will be incumbent on the master orally to explain and parse them to his pupils.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiii. 28 An Act..forbidding English subjects to hold any intercourse orally, or by writing, or by message, with the exiled family.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxix. 104 He played a more coaxing game; and while never going beyond words, or attempting the renewal of caresses, he did his utmost orally.

1927 Amer. Math. Monthly 34 292 The candidate is examined orally in each of his subjects.

1950 P. Bowles Let. 24 Apr. in In Touch (1994) 218 Certain agreements had been made between Jay and the agent, and it was orally understood that the volume was to be done by ND.

1990 Pen Internat. 40 ii. 45 Its literature was orally based, many of the poems could be sung.

1951 C. S. Ford & F. A. Beach Patterns Sexual Behaviour (1952) iii. 54 Alorese men occasionally stimulate the woman's genitals orally.

1953 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Female vii. 258 16 per cent had stimulated the male genitalia orally.

1981 L. Bangs in G. Marcus Psychotic Reactions (1987) 348 Mexican lezzies havin' at each other orally.

2002 Guardian (Nexis) 2 Nov. 90 Men picked up a sex tip: women like to be pleasured orally.