regimentallyadv.
/ˌrɛdʒᵻˈmɛntl̩i/, U.S. /ˌrɛdʒəˈmən(t)l̩i/ 1.
a. On a regimental basis; according to regiment.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [adverb] > by regiments
regimentally1698
1698 S. Johnson Confut. of Ballancing Let. 3 There is no more need for twenty thousand of the Army to be kept up Regimentally to withstand an Invasion..than there is need for these twenty thousand to have their Horses always bridled and sadled, their Muskets and Pistols always cock't, or to lie in their Boots.
1713 London Gaz. No. 5086/3 The rest of the Out-Pensioners are to appear at the said Hospital Regimentally on such Days as will be advertised.
1776 G. Washington Let. 5 Oct. in Official Lett. to Amer. Congr. (1795) I. 287 Congress should determine the mode by which promotions are to be regulated,—whether colonially..or regimentally.
1799 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (ed. 3) 365 The trumpet flourish, in drawing swords, is used regimentally on their own ground.
1834 W. F. Napier Hist. War Penins. IV. xv. ii. 268 All things requisite for the subsistence..of troops should be organised regimentally.
1885 Manch. Examiner 14 Apr. 4/7 The Government intended to call out the reserves regimentally.
1905 Amer. Hist. Rev. 10 346 Lists of successions can be found in the Succession Books, volumes 1-4, 13-14, arranged both regimentally and chronologically.
1957 W. J. M. Mackenzie & J. W. Grove Central Admin. in Brit. ii. xvi. 265 The Army had been a combination of a small centralised regular force, subdivided regimentally, and a county militia.
2007 Grimsby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 4 Oct. 17 [Soldiers] are businesslike and celebrated soberly, sometimes in private, locally, or regimentally.
b. As regards a particular regiment; within or with respect to a regiment.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [adverb] > in point of regimental rank
regimentally1775
1775 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. N. Carolina 12 Nov. (1776) 76 That the degrees of first and second Lieutenants be considered as giving rank regimentally in the regiments respectively, and not otherwise.
1819 Rev. Admin. & Civil Police of N.Y. 39 In the large cities, the subaltern rose to the rank of captain, regimentally; but there his regimental promotion stopped: while, in the country, he passed regimentally to the rank of colonel.
1864 Realm 18 May 6 The close of the occupation of France found him still only, regimentally, a major in the 43rd.
1911 A. Mainwaring Crown & Company xiv. 225 He was promoted regimentally and appointed A.A.G. of the Guicowar's Subsidiary Force.
1994 Times (Nexis) 11 July Regimentally he was appointed Colonel of The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1959.
2003 Lancs. Evening Post (Nexis) 18 Aug. Regimentally we are recruiting virtually up to strength so we have no problems recruiting from the North West. There are other regiments who can't recruit.
2. In a manner suggestive of a regiment or regiments; in a highly regular, organized, or systematized way.
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1725 A. Crossly Peerage of Ireland 115 The Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen and Citizens,..marching there Regimentally, or in Corporations in the best manner they could devise.
1783 Nauticks I. 9 Your trees all parade regimentally plac'd.
1821 Monthly Rev. Nov. 231 Some immovable, shallow-seated, high-backed, perpendicular chairs,..were ranged regimentally against the walls.
1866 P. H. Fitzgerald Jenny Bell I. i. xii. 196 They sat together at dinner every day, and walked regimentally in files and couples.
1911 Irish Monthly 39 303 Flocks of birds sweep regimentally by.
1995 New Scientist 20 May 48/1 A regimentally breast-fed baby (10 minutes each side every four hours) will also be denied much of the control of their water and fat intake.
2007 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 13 July 2 Each and every one of Spraydog's tunes are regimentally tight and strangely alluring.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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