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nominately

nominately adverb: by name; by definition.

Adverb

nominately (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) By name; by definition
    • Locus religioſus is that which is aſſigned to ſome Office of Religion, and nominately where the Body of a dead Perſon hath been buried1641, Henry Spelman, De Sepultura

Origin of nominately

From nominate + -ly.

Questions about nominately

What does nominately mean?
Nominately means by name; by definition.
What part of speech is nominately?
Nominately is an adverb.

Words near nominately in the dictionary

  1. nominated postholders
  2. nominated tenant
  3. nominated tenants
  4. nominatee
  5. nominatees
  6. nominately
  7. nominates
  8. nominating
  9. nomination
  10. nomination borough
  11. nomination boroughs

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