Cursorily
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Cursorily is an adverb meaning In a cursory manner.
Meaning
In a cursory manner.
Example Sentences
Rhodammonium Compounds. By S. M. JÖRGENSEN (J. pr. Chem. [2], 25, 346-348).— The author has prepared and cursorily examined some of the rhodammonium compounds, and has found them to be strictly analogous to the cobalt- and chrom-ammonium compounds.
This place contains ſo many remarkable remains, and collections ſo curious, that we are ſorry to paſs by it curſorily. We adviſe the reader and the traveller to be leſs haſty. The trophæal arch and the ſepulchral monument, at Glanum Livii, a colony probably eſtabliſhed by M. Livius Druſus Libo, afford alſo ſeveral circumſtances, which will intereſt the attentive traveller.
Synonyms for cursorily
Depending on context, synonyms include quickly.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quickly, glancingly, scattily, skimmingly, pursily, discursorily.
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