Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something beside the principal matter; something incidental.
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Examples
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That the latter manner of search (which is all) they pass over compendiously and slightly as a by-matter.
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I knew one that, when he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter.
XXII. Of Cunning 1909
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Inwardly ashamed of my loose methods, compared with Rand's thorough ones, I hastened to ask of Mr. Steele, as a by-matter, being sure that he would know.
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