compulsorily
advEtymology From compulsory + -ly.
1
In a compulsory manner.
- Soldiers were drafted compulsorily.
- These Governments [of Ireland and Northern Ireland] have now announced their intention to introduce measures enabling them compulsorily to purchase the railway.1951 April, “Notes and News: The Fate of the G.N.R. (I.)”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
- Antonyms
- voluntarily