summarily
/səˈmɛɹɪli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Over a short period of time, briefly.
Example Sentences
- "They were fired summarily at a single plant-wide meeting."
- "[…] and any offender found with firearms in his possession contrary to this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof summarily convicted before any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace, of being so illegally at large as aforesaid, shall be kept to hard labour on any of the Roads or Public Works of the said colony, for any time not exceeding three calendar months."
- "[…] but in July 1745 he was summarily ordered by the secretary of state, the Duke of Newcastle, to return to England."
- "It is true that contempt committed in a trial courtroom can under some circumstances be punished summarily by the trial judge."
- "And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency."
- "He covered the topic summarily in an answer to a question."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more summarily (comparative)
most summarily (superlative)