LEGALLY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a legal manner

Example:

he acted legally

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

legal (established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules)

Sense 2

Meaning:

By law; conforming to the law

Example:

we are lawfully wedded now

Synonyms:

de jure; lawfully; legally

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

legal (of or relating to jurisprudence)

Credits

Context examples:

I say this fully mindful that Mercury will still be retrograde until November 20, so hopefully, the promise you make is a little one, not one that is overly serious and legally binding.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The US unit of liquid volume legally defined as 3785.411784 milliliters (3.785 411 784 liters), or 231 cubic inches.

(Gallon US, NCI Thesaurus)

A mechanism for collaboration between government and outside scientists that legally defines intellectual property rights and financial and other responsibilities.

(Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, NCI Thesaurus)

The old house with its atmosphere of murder, the singular and formidable inhabitants, the unknown dangers of the approach, and the fact that we were putting ourselves legally in a false position all combined to damp my ardour.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice, and the general reason of mankind.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A small sharp-looking lad, half-footboy and half-clerk, who was very much out of breath, but who looked at me as if he defied me to prove it legally, presented himself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That these meshes; beginning with alarming and falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver, at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from—HEEP—and by—HEEP—fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries—gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.