Catachrestically

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a catachrestic manner; by improper use of language or terms.

c. 1600.  Timon, IV. iii. (1842), 67. A man may hange himselfe 2 manner of waies; either aptitudinally and catachrestically, or perpendicularly and inhæsiuely: choose which of these thou wilt.

1603.  Sir C. Heydon, Jud. Astrol., xviii. 375. He would catachrestically, or improperly, apply them to the partes of the Zodiacke.

1702.  C. Mather, Magn. Chr., IV. ii. (1852), 49. The churches (as they were catechrestically called).

1864.  J. H. Newman, Apol., 274. And (to speak catachrestically) they are most likely to die in the Church, who are … most prepared to leave it.