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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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65 words match “MENTALLY”

In the mind; in thought or meditation; intellectually; in idea.

ALIMENTALLY adv.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

ELEMENTALLY adv.

According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.

EXPERIMENTALLY adv.

By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.

FUNDAMENTALLY adv.

; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

INSTRUMENTALLY adv. 2 definitions

South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke.

MOMENTALLY adv.

For a moment. [Obs.]

MONUMENTALLY adv. 2 definitions

By way of memorial.

ORNAMENTALLY adv.

By way of ornament.

REGIMENTALLY adv.

In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.

SACRAMENTALLY adv.

In a sacrament manner.

SENTIMENTALLY adv.

In a sentimental manner.

rge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.

To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.] Milton.

Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. Words . . . must owe their powers association. Johnson. Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned Coleridge.

At bottom; fundamentally; essentially.

Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate. A fair balance of the advantages on either side. Atterbury.

Mentally dull; stupid. Shak. Barren flower, a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils. -- Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed…

To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor Dryden. The ancient grudge I bear him. Shak.