English

Adverb

peremptorily ‎(comparative more peremptorily, superlative most peremptorily)

1. In a peremptory manner; in a commanding tone, brooking no delay.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays, New York: T.Y. Cromwell, 1901, LVII, "Of Anger", p. 233,

     […] that you doe not peremptorily break off, in any Businesse, in a Fitt of Anger: But howsoever you shew Bitternes, do not Act any thing, that is not Revocable.

   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1911, p. 34,

     I shall not peremptorily deny, that from most of such mixt bodies as partake either of animal or vegetable nature, there may by the help of the fire be actually obtained a determinate number […] of substances, worthy of differing denominations.

   • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961, Chapter XIII, p. 189,

     […] the door-bell jingled peremptorily, and the girl left waiting on the table to go and answer it.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,

     "Never mind that!" here peremptorily broke in the superior, his face altering with anger […]

   He was peremptorily summoned to see the commanding officer.