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incidentally

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in·ci·den·tal·ly  (ns-dntl-)
adv.
1. As a minor or subordinate matter: by profession a lawyer and incidentally a musician.
2. also (-dntl) Apart from the main subject; parenthetically.
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Adv.1.incidentally - introducing a different topic; in point of fact; "incidentally, I won't go to the party"
2.incidentally - of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models"

incidentally
Translations
incidentally [ɪnsɪˈdɛntəlɪ] adv (= by the way) → por cierto
incidentally [ɪnsɪˈdɛntəlɪ] adv (= by the way) → à propos
incidentally [ɪnsɪˈdɛntəlɪ] incidental advübrigens
incidentally [ɪnsɪˈdɛntəlɪ] adv (= by the way) → a proposito


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The job had been to make a punitive expedition to a neighbouring island, and, incidentally, to recover the heads of some mutual friends of ours--a white-trader, his white wife and children, and his white clerk.
Gurry, so called, is a term properly belonging to right whalemen, but sometimes incidentally used by the sperm fishermen.
While there she incidentally contrived to hurry Ludovic Speed in his leisurely courting of Theodora Dix, as related duly in another chronicle of her history.
 
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