LekhoriLekhoriOn occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
On an occasion, accidentally, by chance.
Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.
Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]
From Middle English occasionally, occasionaly, occasyoneely, occasyonly, equivalent to occasional + -ly.
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