The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collaterally \Col*lat"er*al*ly\, adv.
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Side by side; by the side.
These pulleys . . . placed collaterally.
--Bp. Wilkins. -
In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.
The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly.
--Jer. Taylor. In collateral relation; not lineally.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In collateral relation; not lineally. 2 side by side; by the side 3 In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.
Usage examples of "collaterally".
She started to gesture collaterally, then remembered that humans only rarely used their limbs in conversation.
But the greater scholars like Stout and Schultz, both of Nebraska, believe that he originated from American stock dating far back and that he emigrated over the land bridge to Asia to develop collaterally there.
And this dragon had been related collaterally to the descendants of the Great Egg.
It developed collaterally with the science-fiction boom but independent of the sf field-in fact, apparently largely ignorant of most of the science fiction concerning its very raison d'etre-out of the same historical evolutionary forces that produced the sf boom.