inteˈrruptedly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an interrupted manner; with interruptions or void intervals; discontinuously.
| 1663 Boyle Exp. Hist. Colours i. iii. §19 The incident light that meets with a grosser liquour..will have its beams either refracted, or imbibed, or else reflected more or less interruptedly than they would be, if the body had been unmoistened. a 1708 Beveridge Thes. Theol. (1711) III. 38 Not interruptedly, but constantly. 1817 Byron Manfred iii. iv, Interruptedly..the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. |
b. Bot. (and Zool.) With smaller or otherwise different members in the intervals between the others: see prec. b.
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Leaf (Pinnated), The interruptedly pinnated, in which the folioles are irregular and unequal in size or situation. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 215 Cellules interruptedly uniseriate. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 108 Spiræa ulmaria..leaves interruptedly pinnate. Ibid. 290 Galeopsis Ladanum..leaves..interruptedly serrate or subentire. |