adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a centrifugal manner; from the interior or center towards the exterior.

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1819.  H. Busk, Vestriad, IV. 955. Hemm’d skirts centrifugally through Concentric orbits, glitter’d as they flew.

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1833.  Sir C. Bell, Hand, Prelim. Disc. (1874), 17. The nervous agency which excites the muscles proceeds outwardly from the brain, or centrifugally.

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1871.  Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (ed. 6), II. vi. 76. The British Association then … pushes knowledge centrifugally outwards.

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1876.  Daily News, 27 Oct., 5/6. When a shell explodes the splinters fly centrifugally upwards.

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