cursorily

adv

cursorily

adv

Etymology From cursory + -ly.

1

In a cursory manner.

  • This place contains ſo many remarkable remains, and collections ſo curious, that we are ſorry to paſs by it curſorily. We adviſe the reader and the traveller to be leſs haſty. The trophæal arch and the ſepulchral monument, at Glanum Livii, a colony probably eſtabliſhed by M. Livius Druſus Libo, afford alſo ſeveral circumſtances, which will intereſt the attentive traveller.1788?: Tobias George Smollett [ed.], The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature, volume 65, page 454
  • Rhodammonium Compounds. By S. M. JÖRGENSEN (J. pr. Chem. [2], 25, 346-348).— The author has prepared and cursorily examined some of the rhodammonium compounds, and has found them to be strictly analogous to the cobalt- and chrom-ammonium compounds.1882, “Abstracts of Chemical Papers”, in Journal of the Chemical Society - Part 2, page 1173:

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