adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a transversal manner, transversely, athwart.
(In quot. 1641, app. = obliquely.)
1641. Wilkins, Math. Magick, I. xviii. (1707), 77. The several Proportions of Swiftness and Distance in an Arrow shot Vertically, or Horizontally, or Transversally.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., V. 39. A shield twice longitudinally divided and three times transversally with a scutcheon of pretence.
1907. Daily Chron., 19 Jan., 3/1. [In the opinion of some] ‘Heredity goes transversally, sideways, not in straight lines.’
