summarily

Adverb

(comparative more summarily, superlative most summarily)

(manner) In a summary manner.
They were fired summarily at a single plant-wide meeting.
(duration) Over a short period of time, briefly.
He covered the topic summarily in an answer to a question.

Origin

summary +‎ -ly

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He had dealt summarily with the striking policemen in Boston Sept.
Any suggestion of an open window shade or even a night-light was summarily dismissed.
Only such a determination could enable the doctrines to be summarily presented as a system of thought.
But Tobiah and Johanan themselves were worshippers of Yahweh (as their names also show), and consequently, with prophets taking different sides and with the Samaritan claims summarily repudiated (Neh.
If he has no goods which may be seized, he may be summarily imprisoned for a term not exceeding 91 days: two imprisonments for the same debt are not permitted.

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