adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a fallacious manner.

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1650.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., To the Reader. We shall so far encourage contradiction, as to promise no disturbance, or re-oppose any Pen, that shall fallaciously or captiously refute us.

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1764.  Reid, Inquiry, vi. § 5. 139. The followers of Democritus and Epicurus conceived the forms of heat, and sound, and colour, to be in the mind only, but that our senses fallaciously represented them as being in bodies.

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1884.  Sir C. S. C. Bowen, in Law Rep., 28 Chanc. Div. 15. It is often fallaciously assumed that [etc.].

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