adv. [f. prec. + -LY.] In a connective manner.
1670. Penn, People’s Lib., 44. It is sometimes rendred not (or) disjunctively, but (and) which is connectively.
1701. Swift, Contests Nobles & Com., in Misc. (1747), I. 3. The Mass or Body of the people, whose part of power is great and indisputable, whenever they can unite connectively, or by deputation, to exert it.
1778. Learning at a Loss, II. 9. Which [oration] I have here endeavoured to give you connectively.
