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equivocally, adv.|iːˈkwɪvəkəlɪ|
Also 6–7 æq-.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In an equivocal manner.
†1. So as to have the name without the properties implied in the name; nominally. Cf. equivocal 1. Obs.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 208 By flesh and bloud æquiuocally, he vnderstandeth the sacrament of the flesh and bloud of Christe. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xiv. §4 (1622) 152 Which whosoeuer lacketh, he is not properly, but equiuocally, a man. a1716South (J.), Words abstracted from their proper sense and signification, lose the nature of words, and are only equivocally so called.
2. By equivocal generation. See equivocal a. 3.
1645Wither Gt. Assises Parnass. 31–3 Reptiles, which are equivocally bred. 1828Macaulay Misc. Writ. (1860) 419 Those foul reptiles..of filth and stench equivocally born.
3. a. So as to admit of a twofold or manifold application. b. So as to convey a double meaning, ambiguously.
a.1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentl. (1641) 70 Vocation may be taken equivocally or univocally. c1790Reid Let. in Wks. I. 75/2 The same word may be applied to different things in three ways..equivocally, when they have no relation but a common name.
b.1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 39, I forgive Grotius in this, not having defined anything less equivocally. a1720Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks (1753) II. 153 She spoke equivocally. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. v. 551 They [the instructions] were so equivocally worded. |