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systematically, adv.|sɪstɪˈmætɪkəlɪ, sɪstə-|
[f. prec. + -ly2: see -ically.]
1. a. In a systematic manner; according to a system or organized plan; regularly and methodically.
1661Boyle Physiol. Ess. (1669) 7 Far from having such a stock of Experiments and Observations, as I judge requisite to write Systematically. 1699[see system 10]. 1753Warburton Princ. Nat. & Rev. Relig. v. Wks. 1788 V. 71 Urging those truths systematically,..which the Evangelists proposed singly and without connection. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) I. ii. 15 The majority of mankind learn nothing systematically, except as schoolboys or apprentices. 1837Lockhart Scott IV. v. 148 Every case and shelf was accurately lettered, and the works arranged systematically. 1860Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) III. 45 The silence I systematically observe on the shortcomings of servants. 1880L. Stephen Pope iv. 93 Pope..knew the value of independence well enough to be systematically economical.
b. With unfavourable implication: With a regularity indicating (evil) design or habit: cf. systematic a. 3 b.
1829F. Glasse Belgic Past. ii. 39 He systematically gains his ends By sacrifice of principles and friends. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 144 The enemies of Child had..accused him of systematically publishing false intelligence. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) II. x. 411 The pope..had heard..that abbots and monks in many places were systematically faithless to their vows. 1878Lecky Eng. 18th Cent. I. i. 134 Officers of known Whig tendencies were systematically laid aside.
c. systematically ambiguous adj. phr. (Philos.), having an ambiguity that is systematic (see systematic a. 3 c).
1929C. I. Lewis Mind & World-Order i. 11 The adjective ‘real’ is systematically ambiguous and can have a single meaning only in a special sense. 1943I. A. Richards How to read a Page iii. 52 There are few important words which are not in varying patterns systematically ambiguous; say is typical. These regular shifts of sense as a rule give us little trouble in reading. 1967Philos. XLII. 208 ‘Reality’ may be systematically ambiguous.
†2. By means of a ‘system’ or theory, theoretically: cf. prec. 1 b. Obs.
1749Chesterfield Let. to Son 19 Dec., This knowledge is not to be gotten systematically; you must acquire it..by your own observation and sagacity. |