occasionally

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   now and then or here and there

   You can be arrogant and occasionally callous.

2. 2
   adv

   On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.

   God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.

3. 3
   adv

   On an occasion, accidentally, by chance.

   Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.

4. 4
   adv

   On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.

   Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]

Etymology

From Middle English occasionally, occasionaly, occasyoneely, occasyonly, equivalent to occasional + -ly.