presumptivelyadv.

1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) ii. vii. 57 It may of it selfe make proofe, either in a fact done long agone; (as to prooue by Fame, that a man is dead) or of a fact that cannot easily (by direct proofs) be conuinced, but presumptiuely; as the very fact of adulterie.

a1677 I. Barrow Disc. Unity (1680) 5 Presumptively every member of this [church] doth pass for a member of the other.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. x. 123 In the Act of Contracting, it must be of purpose to obliege, either really or presumptively, and so must be serious, so that what is exprest in jest or scorn, makes no Contract.

1728 Parent disinherited by his Off-spring 10 'Tis presumptively evident (at least) that there was an innate Quality in that Fruit, which rendered it..poysonous.

1765 Gentleman's Mag. 35 53/1 It is fit thus to establish what is presumptively right here.

1820 Times 11 Sept. 3/4 In the course of his able observations he has established, presumptively, her innocence.

1878 H. James Europeans II. i. 9 A young lady with a dowry presumptively brilliant.

1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 643 The furniture of an hotel is not presumptively the property of the person who is occupying the hotel.

1926 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 16 Mar. 3/1 The accident was presumptively due to a faulty condition of the rails and switch.

1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 9/2 ‘Presumptively,’ says Marchi, ‘when a man tells me something, I believe him.’

1998 R. L. Moore et al. Advertising & Public Relations Law v. xvii. 379 Jury selection was so integral to the criminal trial process and was so intimately related to the actual trial that it too was presumptively open to the press and public.