adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  In an exceptional manner or degree; uncommonly, unusually, unusually well.

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1848.  T. Sinclair, The Mount, 58. This critic … is exceptionally wise in practical matters.

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1879.  A. R. Wallace, Australasia, x. 212. In its animal life this colony is also very peculiar, though not exceptionally rich in species.

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1881.  Florence A. Marshall, in Macm. Mag., XLIII. 436/2. Music … too shadowy in outline to be grasped by the uninitiated, unless very exceptionally performed.

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  2.  By way of exception; as an exception to rule or custom.

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1862.  F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 144. Such has been, not exceptionally, the history of the Systematists.

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1866.  Carlyle, Edw. Irving, in Remin. (1881), I. 106. The official … invited us exceptionally in for an actual inspection of his theodolite.

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1874.  Micklethwaite, Mod. Par. Churches, 36. Western galleries should be but exceptionally used in parish churches.

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