septentrionally

English

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Etymology

From septentrional +‎ -ly.

Adverb

septentrionally (not comparable)

(obsolete, nonce word) northerly
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
  if they be powerfully excited, and equally let fall, they commonly sink down and break the water at that extreme whereat they were septentrionally excited; and by this way it is conceived there may be some fraud in the weighing of precious commodities, and such as carry a value in quarter-grains, by placing a powerful loadstone above or below, […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “septentrionally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

prosententially