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8,486 words match “ALLY”

OCCASIONALLY adv.

. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.

OFFICIALLY adv.

uance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.

ONTOLOGICALLY adv.

In an ontological manner.

By optics or sight; with reference to optics. Optically active, Optically inactive (Chem. Physics), terms used of certain metameric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz., that they do or do not produce right-handed or left-handed circular polarization of light. -- Op…

OPTIONALLY adv.

In an optional manner.

ORALLY adv. 2 definitions

By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. [Obs.] Usher.

ORGANICALLY adv.

rganic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.

ORIGINALLY adv. 2 definitions

r; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson.

ORNAMENTALLY adv.

By way of ornament.

ORTHODOXALLY adv.

Orthodoxly. [R.] Milton

ORTHOGONALLY adv.

Perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally.

ORTHOGRAPHICALLY adv. 3 definitions

In an orthographical manner:

In an oval form.

OVERLIBERALLY adv.

In an overliberal manner.

In a papal manner; popishly

PARABOLICALLY adv. 2 definitions

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

PARENTALLY adv.

In a parental manner.

PARENTHETICALLY adv.

In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.

PAROCHIALLY adv.

In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes. Bp. Stillingfleet.

PARTIALLY adv. 2 definitions

In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed. Sir T. Browne.