Asiatically

English

Etymology

Asiatic + -ally

Adverb

Asiatically (comparative more Asiatically, superlative most Asiatically)

  1. (dated) In a (typically) Asian manner; from, in or toward Asia.
    Synonym: orientally
    • 1743, George Alexander Stevens, The Dramatic History of Master Edward, London: T. Waller, dedicatory epistle, page 186:
      [] to the Importance of your Mightiness, Prostrate at the Threshold of your Munificence, Do I Asiatically bow my Head;
    • 1843, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Emily Brontë dated 2 September, 1843, in Muriel Spark (ed.), The Letters of the Brontës, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954, p. 106,
      The weather has been exceedingly fine during the last fortnight, and yet not so Asiatically hot as it was last year at this time.
    • 1929, Robert Byron, The Byzantine Achievement, Routledge, published 2012, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 175:
      [] the iconoclast sovereigns, strong in the support of an Asiatically recruited army, had added much to the glory of the Empire,
    • 2011, David Guterson, chapter 6, in Ed King, New York: Knopf, page 133:
      The books in his waiting room inclined Asiatically, as did the knickknacks in his lavatory.
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