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summarily

adv
/səˈmɛɹɪli/

Etymology

From summary + -ly.

  1. derived from summa — “total, sum”
  2. derived from summārius
  3. inherited from summary
  4. suffixed as summarily — “summary + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a summary manner.

    • They were fired summarily at a single plant-wide meeting.
    • […] but in July 1745 he was summarily ordered by the secretary of state, the Duke of Newcastle, to return to England.

  2. Over a short period of time, briefly.

    • He covered the topic summarily in an answer to a question.
    • After this mention of the closing persecution, he summarily indicates all that the devil, and the city of which he is the prince, shall suffer in the last judgment.
    • They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at summarily. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at summarily. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at summarily

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA