peremptorily

Etymology

peremptory + -ly

adv

  1. In a peremptory manner; in a commanding tone, brooking no delay.
    He was peremptorily summoned to see the commanding officer.
    1597, Francis Bacon, Essays, New York: T.Y. Cromwell, 1901, LVII, "Of Anger", p. 233, https://archive.org/details/essaysoffrancisb00baco […] that you doe not peremptorily break off, in any Businesse, in a Fitt of Anger: But howsoever you shew Bitternes, do not Act any thing, that is not Revocable.
    I shall not peremptorily deny, that from most of such mixt bodies as partake either of animal or vegetable nature, there may by the help of the fire be actually obtained a determinate number […] of substances, worthy of differing denominations. 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, published 1911, page 34

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