adv. [f. ABORTIVE a. + -LY2.] In an abortive manner; by untimely birth; by premature arrestment; ineffectually.

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1598.  Florio, Abbortare, to be deliuered abortiuely.

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1633.  Heywood, Eng. Trav. (1874), III. 48. I thus abortiuely, before my time, Fall headlong to my Graue.

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1742.  Young, Night Th. (1757), VII. 96. If abortively poor man must die.

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