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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incidentally
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The moon landing was only incidentally about science.
▪ The symphony, incidentally, will perform outdoors for its final concert.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had a tremendous wang, incidentally.
▪ Hincmar reveals more than Dhuoda about eating arrangements, and, incidentally, about the lay-out of the palace-complex.
▪ It is, incidentally, a career in which women are making particular headway.
▪ One will be for a fast and reliable commuter line across Kent, which could incidentally carry cross-Channel traffic.
▪ The criticism of Turgenev is only incidentally that he is stuck in the 1840s and not far-sighted enough.
▪ The improvement, incidentally, is amazing.
▪ The worm generally has a low pathogenicity, and the majority of infections are discovered only incidentally at postmortem examination.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incidentally

Incidental \In`ci*den"tal\, a. Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses.

By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded . . . as an incidental business.
--Rogers.

Syn: Accidental; casual; fortuitous; contingent; chance; collateral. See Accidental. -- In`ci*den"tal*ly, adv. -- In`ci*den"tal*ness, n.

I treat either or incidentally of colors.
--Boyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incidentally

1520s, "by the way, casually;" see incidental + -ly (2). Sense of "as a new but related point" attested by 1925.

Wiktionary
incidentally

adv. 1 (context manner English) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance. 2 By chance; in an unplanned way. 3 (context speech act conjunctive English) parenthetically, by the way.

WordNet
incidentally
  1. adv. introducing a different topic; "by the way, I won't go to the party" [syn: by the way, by the bye]

  2. in an incidental manner; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models" [syn: accidentally, by chance]

  3. by the way; "apropos, can you lend me some money for the weekend?" [syn: apropos]

Usage examples of "incidentally".

He now oversees the purchasing at the Arapahoe, incidentally, which, along with about four hundred other hostelries all over the world, including one in Katmandu, is a Hospitality Associates, Ltd.

The Royalton, incidentally, like the Arapahoe, was a Hospitality Associates, Ltd.

Umberto Alcazar-Diaz, visiting professor of astrogeology at the University of Sao Paulo, director general of Site A, and, not incidentally, also a research fellow at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston, had just taken off his glasses and settled back for a nap.

Incidentally, the innocuous-looking Air Force lieutenant colonel that you had the other nutty Aussie squire around probably knows more about the countryside than your entire pack of pilots.

We had hardly got going when the whole mass seemed to shift in one great cloud, covering the fleeing troops and incidentally Feisul, but leaving us in our two autos high and dry, as it were, in full view of the French.

In a strong northeaster they rounded Cape Antonio the next morning and headed southwest down the Yucatan Channel toward Barranquilla to pick up a neutral cargo of mahogany and rosewood, and not incidentally, an important British subject.

A simple system, and, yet, one Boolean could do nothing about without negating the duplication as well, and one that would make our quarry stand out in our society and, not incidentally, would prevent the natural experimentation that might have resulted in a pregnancy.

Incidentally, I have taken the precaution of providing concentrated cyanide tablets for Henriques and myself: death from the Satan Bug, as we have observed from experiments on animals, is rather more prolonged than death from botulinus and most distressing.

Incidentally, it got its name from the Greek bromos, which means stench.

Incidentally the teacher clears up difficulties and corrects misconceptions on the part of the pupil.

Homeric epics presented in the forty-eight chapters of this book is not helped much by the two and a half thousand years of ingenious speculation on the Homeric question, but it might, quite incidentally, add one more opinion to them.

I would like, really incidentally, to demonstrate a way of reading the epics that will, I think, make more such things reveal themselves.

Ah, yes, incidentally, either then or a little earlier, the magician disappeared from the stage together with his faded armchair, and it must be said that the public took absolutely no notice of it, carried away as it was by the extraordinary things Fagott was unfolding on stage.

And in that case, incidentally, what makes flagellantism worse than nihilism, Jesuitism, atheism?

For there is that about this genial frontiersman that draws all men to him alike, be they Scotch or English, Canadian habitans or Montagnais, and he is the king of the coast, as his father was before him, or as was old Peter McKenzie, the head factor, who incidentally cast the best salmon fly ever thrown east of Montreal or south of Ungava.