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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Occasionally, adv. [e.m.E. (1622).] a. Accidentally; by chance, fortuitously. b. On a particular occasion; for a special purpose. —a. 1662 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 232.
During the … confusion … Alexander Ferquharson was … killed occasionally, by whom it cannot be knoune 1663–9 J. Livingstone in Sel. Biog. I. 131.
That same day my father came occasionally to town —b. 1672 Cullen Kirk S. 16 Jan.
Conveined with the minister, the elders being occasionally called by him 1680 Cloud of Witnesses 75.
That poor party that were occasionally met at Air's Moss only for the hearing of the gospel
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