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Etymology edit

Asiatic +‎ -ally

Adverb edit

Asiatically (comparative more Asiatically, superlative most Asiatically)

  1. (dated) In a (typically) Asian manner; from, in or toward Asia.
    Synonym: orientally
    • 1743, George Alexander Stevens, The Dramatic History of Master Edward[1], London: T. Waller, dedicatory epistle, page 186:
      [] to the Importance of your Mightiness, Prostrate at the Threshold of your Munificence, Do I Asiatically bow my Head;
    • 1843, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Emily Brontë dated 2 September, 1843, in Muriel Spark (ed.), The Letters of the Brontës, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954, p. 106,[2]
      The weather has been exceedingly fine during the last fortnight, and yet not so Asiatically hot as it was last year at this time.
    • 1929, Robert Byron, The Byzantine Achievement[3], Routledge, published 2012, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 175:
      [] the iconoclast sovereigns, strong in the support of an Asiatically recruited army, had added much to the glory of the Empire,
    • 2011, David Guterson, chapter 6, in Ed King[4], New York: Knopf, page 133:
      The books in his waiting room inclined Asiatically, as did the knickknacks in his lavatory.