SUMMARILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does summarily mean? 

• SUMMARILY (adverb)
  The adverb SUMMARILY has 1 sense:

1. without delay; in a summary manner

  Familiarity information: SUMMARILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMMARILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without delay; in a summary manner

Context example:

the suspected spy was summarily executed

Pertainym:

summary (performed speedily and without formality)

 Context examples 

The Admiral wound it up summarily by exclaiming—Ay, a very bad business indeed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Evidence of a previous conviction for robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to the Assizes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought it my duty to hint at the discomfort my aunt would sustain, from living in a continual state of guerilla warfare with Mrs. Crupp; but she disposed of that objection summarily by declaring that, on the first demonstration of hostilities, she was prepared to astonish Mrs. Crupp for the whole remainder of her natural life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)