adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a colloquial manner; in the language of ordinary conversation.

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1791.  Boswell, Johnson, 26 Oct. an. 1769. I found fault with Foote for indulging his talent of ridicule at the expence of his visitors, which I colloquially termed making fools of his company.

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1845.  Stoddart, in Encycl. Metrop. (1847), I. 103/1. In this sense the French colloquially use aux trousses.

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1871.  Tylor, Prim. Cult., I. 339. Europeans, who colloquially say the needle points to the north.

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  b.  In the tone of ordinary conversation (rare).

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1874.  F. G. Lee, Manuale Clericorum, 113. Whilst the Psalms are not even said in monotone, but colloquially.

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