occasionally
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈkeɪʒənəli/
occasionally
- From time to time; sometimes; at relatively infrequent intervals. [from 15th c.]
- Synonyms: now and then, once in a while
- 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “The Fourth Letter. To the Same Favourable or Indifferent Reader.”, in Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, especially Touching Robert Greene, and Other Parties by Him Abused: […], London: Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, for Edward White, OCLC 84013514 ↗; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], OCLC 907145924 ↗, page 56 ↗:
- Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]
- 1619, John Richardson, John Toland, The canon of the New Testament Vindicated, page 30
- I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...
- 1639, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the Five Books of Moses, the Book of the Psalmes and the Song of Songs, page 177.
- God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
- 1855, Horace Mann, "On the Statistical Position of Religious Bodies in England and Wales," Journal of the Statistical Society of London, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 152,
- Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
- 1978, Stephen R. Graubard, "Twenty Years of 'Daedalus'," Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 32, no. 3, p. 18,
- The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
- 2007, Matt Gouras/AP, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080324012717/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1653785,00.html Wildfires Rage in Montana]," Time, 17 Aug,
- Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
- depends, QC Gang, How occasionally is ur dog?
- (obsolete) By chance; accidentally. [17th–18th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 161:
- Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 161:
- French: occasionnellement
- German: gelegentlich
- Portuguese: ocasionalmente
- Russian: иногда́
- Spanish: ocasionalmente, de vez en cuando, a veces
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