# variegatedly
## English
### Etymology

From variegated +‎ -ly.

### Adverb

variegatedly (comparative more variegatedly, superlative most variegatedly)
* In a variegated manner.
** [c. 1790], John Græfer, A Descriptive Catalogue of Upwards of Eleven Hundred Species and Varieties of Herbaceous or Perennial Plants; […], 2nd edition, London: […] J. Smeeton, […], page 62:9, Iris pumila. Dwarf Flower de Luce. β. flore rubello. red flowered. γ. flore variegato. variegatedly flowered.
** 1798, Dietrich Ludwig Gustavus Karsten, translated by George Mitchell, A Description of the Minerals in the Leskean Museum, volumes I (Containing the Characteristic and Systematic Collections), Dublin: […] R. E. Mercier and Co. […], page 204:Slaty Coal, variegatedly tarnished with the colour of tempered Steel;
** 1802, Anne Ormsby, “Letter LIII. From Lady Albion to Dr. Wesserman.”, in Memoirs of a Family in Swisserland; Founded on Facts, volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman, and O[wen] Rees, […], pages 141–142:[…] the thickly interwoven branches of ſpreading trees embowered a rude ſtone—Tufts of graſs and ſoft moſſes growing over it had formed it into an eaſy ſeat; and withering fern, intermixed with green weeds, ſpreading a variegatedly verdant carpet, induced us to reſt ourſelves.
** 1836, Henry Lytton Bulwer, The Monarchy of the Middle Classes: France, Social, Literary, Political, second series, Paris: […] [John] A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani and C$^o$, […], page 194:His waistcoat, as variegatedly dazzling as a well-shaken kaleidoscope, opened in the middle to display a green satin neckcloth, be-pinned and be-chained from the top to the bottom like a lady’s stomacher.
** 1849, “TOADFLAX”, in John M[arius] Wilson, editor, The Rural Cyclopedia, or A General Dictionary of Agriculture, and of the Arts, Sciences, Instruments, and Practice, Necessary to the Farmer, Stockfarmer, Gardener, Forester, Landsteward, Farrier, &c., volumes IV (Q–Z), Edinburgh: A[rchibald] Fullarton and Co., […]; and […] London, page 467:[…] its flowers are solitary, and grow on long axillary footstalks, and have a small size, a very elegant form, and a variegatedly blue and violet corolla, and bloom from May till November.
** 1869 May, Journal of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, Held in St. George’s Church, Fredericksburg on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th May, 1869, Richmond: Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, […], page 34:To any ritualism so recognized and sanctioned no one may justly object, but beyond the license thus indicated, begins excess, which, being once outside the legitimate limitation, may run riot in any amount of extravagance which the fancy or the folly of the individual affects—such as the use of fading flowers cut off from their root to symbolize a resurrection to life—groups of variegatedly vested and artistically attitudinizing priests, to observe the sacrament instituted with so much simplicity in the upper chamber at Jerusalem—[…].
** 1874, Robert Brown, A Manual of Botany, Anatomical and Physiological, for the Use of Students, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 520:Some seeds are diversified, and often brilliantly variegatedly coloured, as we have a familiar example in the different varieties of kidney-beans.
** 1984, David Storey, Present Times, Jonathan Cape:[…] each of them delved at their chipped bowls with their variegatedly-patterned spoons […]
** 2012, Jerry D[ennis] Moore, “Gated Communities”, in The Prehistory of Home, Berkeley, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, page 125:The social anthropologist Victor Turner wrote of the human search for liminality, the experience of being “betwixt and between” social statuses, and showed how this impulse was variegatedly manifest—in initiation ceremonies in traditional hunting and gathering societies or during the like-minded progression of pilgrimages.