adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an executive manner; in execution; by the action of the Executive.
1661. Papers on Alter. Prayer-bk., 124. In absolving the excommunicate … the Church both judiciously, and executively remitteth the penalty of excommunication.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm., Wks. (1716), I. 345. God the Holy Ghost … did executively by miraculous operation conduct our Saviour into his fleshly tabernacle.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 4. Protestant Countries, where Jesuitism and Papism are Legislatively Tolerated or Executively Permited.
