pursuantlyadv.

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student l. f. cxxxv Yt folowyth pursueantlye that yt belongyth to the lawe of man, to assygne thys porcyon or that.

1675 J. Howe Living Temple (1845) 167 We are here, pursuantly to the drift and design of the present discourse, to affirm a necessity.

1688 Vox Cleri pro Rege 31 Pursuantly,..‘It may be made appear, that, [etc.].’

1822 Times 14 June 3/2 He saw the deceased making that deadly preparation which the accused had a right to consider as aimed at his own life, and had acted pursuantly on the principle of self-defence.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 126 Pursuantly, one morning,—knock at door..broke startlingly On household slumber.

1922 Times 22 Feb. 16/3 If he had received the same advice that we have received pursuantly to the alternative policy.

1957 E. H. Kantorowicz King's Two Bodies xvii. 399 What matters here is the incessant repetition of the catchword saying that the royal dignity does not die... Pursuantly, Matthaeus de Afflictis..declared in a gloss on the Sicilian Constitutions: ‘The royal dignity never dies.’

2001 W. B. Hallaq Authority, Continuity & Change in Islamic Law v. 129 If one or more of the transmitters of a tradition were known to have acted in accordance with its message, their transmission would be considered to outweigh another where the transmitters did not act pursuantly to what they have narrated.