Terminally

adv. [f. prec. adj. + -LY².]

  † 1.  In relation to, or within, a term or limited period. Obs.

1657.  Gaule, Sapientia Justif., 89. That Death which reigned from Adam to Moses,… if you take the time of Deaths reigning to be betwixt them two, terminally and exclusively.

  2.  At the end or extremity.

1854.  Owen, Skel. & Teeth, in Orr’s Circ. Sc., I. Org. Nat., 182. The … terminally confluent parapophyses.

1875.  Bennett & Dyer, Sachs’ Bot., 460. Female flowers … consisting of a naked axis … bearing the erect ovules terminally or laterally.

  3.  Every term, once a term.

1868.  Times, 26 Sept., 3/5. No house [at Oxford] can be licensed until it bas been inspected by the delegates, and lodgings must be visited by them terminally.

1885.  Law Times, LXXIX. 366/2. An annual rent is paid by the undergraduate … in some cases quarterly, triennially, or terminally.

1896.  Oxford Univ. Gaz., 10 Nov., 110/1. The Scholarship is of the annual value of £45, payable terminally, and tenable for two years.