adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a litigious manner, after the manner of a litigant; in a contentious spirit; wranglingly.

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1608.  Middleton, Trick to Catch Old One, IV. iv. 121. Some foolish words … did pass, Which now litigiously he fastens on me.

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1674.  Owen, Holy Spirit (1693), 270. An Acquaintance with the Nature and Course of some Courts proceeding litigiously by Citations.

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills, III. 47. From Mad-men, Fools, and Knaves he did Litigiously receive it.

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1836.  Marryat, Japhet, lxxiii. Instead of expressing anxiety to receive his son, he litigiously requires proofs.

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