Definition of Obligatorily

1. Adverb. In an obligatory manner. "This rule applies obligatorily"

Partainyms: Obligatory
Antonyms: Optionally

2. Adverb. In a manner that cannot be evaded. "The ministry considers that contributions to such a fund should be met from voluntary donations rather than from rates compulsorily levied."

Definition of Obligatorily

1. adv. In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

Definition of Obligatorily

1. Adverb. In an obligatory manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Obligatorily

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obligatorily

obligate quadrupeds
obligated
obligated(p)
obligatedly
obligatee
obligatees
obligately
obligates
obligati
obligating
obligation
obligational
obligations
obligato
obligator
obligatorily (current term)
obligatoriness
obligators
obligatory
obligatos
oblige
obliged
obliged(p)
obligee
obligees
obligement
obligements
obliger
obligers
obliges

Literary usage of Obligatorily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"Thus amongst the most obligatorily anaerobic organisms with which we are acquainted is the common butyric ferment, the so-called Bacillus ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1880)
"But it also follows, quite as obligatorily, that when the trust in any God at all is becoming every day more rare, when the number of persons who respect ..."

3. The Order Microsauria by Robert Lynn Carroll, Pamela Gaskill (1978)
"The deposit from which the only two known specimens have come includes other forms which range from the obligatorily aquatic, ..."

4. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1879)
"weights and measures is now tablished legally and obligatorily ; eighteen States ... the system is established obligatorily, or optionally, or in principle, ..."

5. Ohio Educational Monthly by Ohio Education Association (1879)
"it appears, first, that the decimal metric system of weights and measures is now established legally and obligatorily in eighteen States, comprising a ..."

6. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon: Forming a by Adolphe Thiers (1845)
"The last and third list, of five or six thousand persons, constituted the list of the national notability; and from, this were to be taken, obligatorily, ..."

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