incidentally

adv

1. In an incidental manner.

   “Near-synonyms: coincidentally, happenstantially, circumstantially, by chance, accidentally, semirandomly, randomly”

2. In an incidental manner.

   “Near-synonym: in passing”

   “The book discussed the subject, but only incidentally.”

   “Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.”

   “Not everybody welcomes standardisation as a principle, because it reduces variety (and, incidentally, tends to dispose of the quainter and more picturesque anomalies).”

3. (conjunctive)In an incidental manner.

   “Incidentally, did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?”