adv. [f. next + -LY2.] In a subsidiary manner or position; subordinately, secondarily. (occas. const. to.)
1603. Florio, Montaigne, I. xxxii. At first sight he addresseth himselfe to this meane, which they never embrace but subsidiarily.
1625. Docum. Impeach. Dk. Buckhm. (Camden Soc.), 209. Three onely should speak, subsidiarily one to another.
1694. Falle, Jersey, iv. 112. This Court was first brought in Subsidiarily, when Causes grew too numerous for Catel.
1818. H. T. Colebrooke, Obligations, 141. He is not bound subsidiarily for the remainder, in the event of insolvency of his coheirs.
1852. Browning, Shelley’s Lett., Introd. Ess. (1881), 7. Subsidiarily to the human interest of his work.
1897. Maitland, Domesday & Beyond, 148. The hundred being but subsidiarily liable.
