subsidiarilyadv.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxxii. 109 At first sight he addresseth himselfe to this meane, which they never embrace but subsidiarily.

1625 in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) 209 Three onely should speak, subsidiarily one to another.

1694 P. Falle Acct. Isle of Jersey iv. 112 This Court was first brought in Subsidiarily, when Causes grew too numerous for Catel.

1722 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. I. iv. 250 The Cautioner being discuss'd, his Attester may be pursued subsidiarily, and will liable as fully in his Order, as the Cautioner himself.

?1790 N. Wyndham Trav. through Europe III. 319 The public force..is composed, of the land and sea armies;..And, subsidiarily, of the active citizens, and their children of age to bear arms.

1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 141 He is not bound subsidiarily for the remainder, in the event of insolvency of his coheirs.

1852 R. Browning in P. B. Shelley Lett. 10 Subsidiarily to the human interest of his work.

1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 148 The hundred being but subsidiarily liable.

1925 S. Lee King Edward VII I. xxix. 551 She admitted that that theme of inquiry was only subsidiarily a party issue.

1994 J. R. Llobera God of Modernity ix. 196 The South German states..often considered themselves independent nations, and only felt very subsidiarily German.