adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a centrifugal manner; from the interior or center towards the exterior.
1819. H. Busk, Vestriad, IV. 955. Hemmd skirts centrifugally through Concentric orbits, glitterd as they flew.
1833. Sir C. Bell, Hand, Prelim. Disc. (1874), 17. The nervous agency which excites the muscles proceeds outwardly from the brain, or centrifugally.
1871. Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (ed. 6), II. vi. 76. The British Association then pushes knowledge centrifugally outwards.
1876. Daily News, 27 Oct., 5/6. When a shell explodes the splinters fly centrifugally upwards.