PREROGATIVELY
Etymology
Adverb
prerogatively (not comparable)
By prerogative.
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*rog"a*tive*ly, adv.
Definition: By prerogative.
PREROGATIVE
Pre*rog"a*tive, n. Etym: [F. prérogative, from L. praerogativa
precedence in voting, preference, privilege, fr. praerogativus that
is asked before others for his opinion, that votes before or first,
fr. praerogare to ask before another; prae before + rogare to ask.
See Rogation.]
1. An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right;
fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an
official and hereditary right which may be asserted without question,
and for the exercise of which there is no responsibility or
accountability as to the fact and the manner of its exercise.
The two faculties that are the prerogative of man -- the powers of
abstraction and imagination. I. Taylor.
An unconstitutional exercise of his prerogative. Macaulay.
2. Precedence; preëminence; first rank. [Obs.]
Then give me leave to have prerogative. Shak.
Note: The term came into general use in the conflicts between the
Crown and Parliaments of Great Britain, especially in the time of the
Stuarts. Prerogative Court (Eng. Law), a court which formerly had
authority in the matter of wills and administrations, where the
deceased left bona notabilia, or effects of the value of five pounds,
in two or more different dioceses. Blackstone.
– Prerogative office, the office in which wills proved in the
Prerogative Court were registered.
Syn.
– Privilege; right. See Privilege.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition