occasionally
adverbiocorriente en diálogos
- //əˈkeɪʒənəli//
- //əˈkeɪʒnəli//
- //əˈkeɪʒənli//
On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
adverbio
- 1
On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
- 2
obsoletoOn an occasion, accidentally, by chance.
Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
[N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world […].
I had met Lord Ossory in the forenoon, who had come to town occasionally.
- 3
obsoletoOn the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.
Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]
I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...
Etimología
From Middle English occasionally, occasionaly, occasyoneely, occasyonly, equivalent to occasional + -ly.
Formas
- comparativo
- more occasionally
- superlativo
- most occasionally
occasionally · On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
occult · To cover or hide from view.occupation · An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually…occupational · Of, belonging, or relating to an occupation (in any sense).