accordingly

adv

1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably

   “He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.”

   “We may the number of ships behold, and so proceed accordingly.”

   “Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.”

   “From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.”

2. (conjunctive)In natural sequence; consequently; so.

   “Our preparations were all finished. Accordingly, we set sail.”

   “Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose, - there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead, - came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.”