adv. [f. as next + -LY2.] By annual return, after the manner of an anniversary.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., xcii. IV. 173. Not only once but Anniversarily by a yearly Dedication.
1749. Richardson, Clarissa, VIII. liii. 214. That fatal seventh which … I will never see anniversarily revolve but in sables.
1820. W. Taylor, in Month. Rev., XCII. 44. The … slaughter of the idolatrous priests ordered by Darius … was anniversarily commemorated in the temple of Jerusalem under the name of the feast of Purim.
