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Collaterally adv.

Side by side; by the side. "These pulleys... placed collaterally."

In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. "The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly."

In collateral relation; not lineally.

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Etymology of 'Collaterally'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collaterally" Quotes from Famous Books

... no such adventurous effort; or, if ever we should presume to do so, not at present. Here we design only to make a coasting voyage of survey round the headlands and most conspicuous sea-marks of our subject, as they are brought forward by Mr Gillman, or collaterally suggested by our own reflections; and especially we wish to say a word or two ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

... must not forget that these stories 'are not regarded by the author merely for the use he makes of them,—that they carry, besides what he applies them to, the seeds of a richer and bolder matter, and sometimes collaterally a more delicate sound, both to the author himself who declines saying anything more about it in that place, and to others who shall happen to be of his ear!' One already prepared by previous discovery of the method of communication here indicated, and by voluminous readings in it, to understand ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon