CUMULATIVELY
cumulatively
(adverb) in a cumulative manner; “mind has become self-reproducing through man’s capacity to transmit experience and its products cumulatively”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
cumulatively (comparative more cumulatively, superlative most cumulatively)
In a cumulative manner.
Source: Wiktionary
CUMULATIVE
Cu"mu*la*tive (k"m-l-tv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. cumulatif.]
1. Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated. "As for
knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, njt
original." Bacon
2. Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as,
a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the
statement proceeds.
The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral
and cumulative. Trench.
3. (Law)
(a) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been
offered; -- said of evidence.
(b) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
Bouvier. Wharton.
Cumulative action (Med.), that action of certain drugs, by virtue of
which they produce, when administered in small doses repeated at
considerable intervals, the same effect as if given in a single large
dose.
– Cumulative poison, a poison the action of which is cumulative.
– Cumulative vote or system of voting (Politics), that system which
allows to each voter as many votes as there are persons to be voted
for, and permits him to accumulate these votes upon one person, or to
distribute them among the candidates as he pleases.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition