abortivelyadv.
/əˈbɔːtᵻvli/, U.S. /əˈbɔrdᵻvli/ In an abortive manner; without success or fulfilment; uselessly, ineffectually; †by a miscarriage or untimely birth, prematurely (obsolete).
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] > early, too early, or prematurely
ratheOE
oversoona1400
overtimelya1400
untimeously1513
before his (also her, etc.) time1545
abortively1552
immaturely1572
untimelya1586
forwardlya1641
prematurely1641
premature1754
ahead of oneself1854
over-early1856
beforetimes1885
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [adverb] > by premature birth
abortively1552
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adverb] > ineffectively
unmightilyc1443
slenderly?1531
limpingly1579
unprevailing1632
ineffectively1655
weakly1663
inefficaciously1727
abortively1744
inefficiently1828
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Brynge Brynge forth or beare a chylde auortiuely before it be perfecte.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Abbortare To be deliuered abortiuely.
1623 G. Fletcher Reward of Faithfull i. i. 5 Nothing is more deformed in the sight of man, than such a defectiue monster in Nature, who should want halfe of his parts, (imagine one abortiuely cast out, with one legge, one eye, halfe a nose, &c.).
1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller iii. i. sig. F On which trusting, I thus abortiuely, before my time, Fall headlong to my Graue.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 6 If abortively poor Man must die.
1783 J. Moir Hist. Polit. Life C. J. Fox xvi. 485 Had he and his friends laboured so long and assiduously to destroy a system, which it was now meanly, but abortively, attempted to make them accessory in reviving?
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vi. 20 It dragged The stagnant, dull, predestinated fool, Thro' learning's halls, and made him labour much Abortively.
1878 Princeton Rev. Jan.–June 656 The effect produced on public opinion by the clerical policy, which, God be thanked, has ended abortively.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 851/1 When later invited..to a professoriate at Franeker, the opposition was renewed, but this time abortively.
1970 Nature 26 Dec. 1332/2 Most eggs which received nuclei from adult organs failed to cleave or cleaved abortively.
2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 Aug. (Sport section) 4 Mourinho had tried, abortively, to throw three strikers forward in an FA Cup defeat to Newcastle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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