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Occasionally

//əˈkeɪʒənəli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.

    "God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed."

  2. 2
    On an occasion, accidentally, by chance. obsolete

    "Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one."

  3. 3
    On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way. obsolete

    "Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    sporadically and infrequently wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English occasionally, occasionaly, occasyoneely, occasyonly, equivalent to occasional + -ly.

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