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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1687-1693
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Ultroneously, adv. [17th c. Eng. vltroneously (1627).] Voluntarily. —1687 Fountainhall Decis. I 470.
And therefore craved a diligence for leading witnesses, who would not ultroneously appear to prove his objections 1693 Fountainhall Decis. I 582.
The objections were that he was uncle to the children, that he had come ultroneously, at least his citation was after the day in the diligence
