assulatim

assŭlātim, adv. [assula],

• in shivers or splinters, piecemeal: Aperite hasce ambas forīs Prius quam pultando assulatim foribus exitium dabo, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 52 (832): hunc senem Osse tenus dolabo et concidam assulatim viscera, will cut to bits, id. Men. 5, 2, 105 (857) Brix: sumere cibum, Auct. ap. Non. p. 72, 24.