prosaicallyadv.

1765 L. Abbott Ess. Struct. Eng. Verse 13 in Poems Var. Subj. The lesser Iambic and lesser Trochee..may both be resolved into the Pirrhic Foot, each of them consisting of two prosaically unaccented Syllables, and therefore both short.

1794 J. Lettice Lett. Tour Scotl. v. 72 With regard to the fervor of the workmen at Carthage..it did not exceed what I saw of the bricklayers, masons, and carpenters, only prosaically busy on the growing streets and squares of Glasgow.

c1829 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 803 Sir Walter Scott, tho' a Poet..manages these matters somewhat more prosaically—i.e. with more sense & discretion.

1853 Littell's Living Age Apr. 4/2 If it be really of vital consequence to print all that a poet has prosaically written..we cannot see why biographers should not..publish a particular account of all the colds and influenzas his hero has suffered.

1885 Bookseller 5 Mar. 241/2 The violin..may be prosaically described as ‘a hollow box 13 inches long by 8¹/ ₂ wide, and weighing about 8¹/ ₂ ounces’.

1912 Mind 21 500 Commerce as well as science..was thus prosaically rationalistic and ‘objective’.

1947 Life 18 Aug. 100/2 The women with the monotonous, insistent voices who are dissatisfied with their bathrooms or prosaically enthusiastic about a piece of real old-world architecture.

1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 106 Yellow-flowered California plants of the Baeria genus that bloom so profusely that they make vast fields of gold;..prosaically called scrambled eggs.