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extensively, adv.|ɛkˈstɛnsɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an extensive manner.
1. Widely, largely; to a great extent; on a large scale; with a wide range.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. xvi. §3 'Tis impossible for any to pass a right judgement concerning them, without..surveying them extensively. 1804L. Murray Eng. Grammar Advt., He may..indulge a hope, that the book will be still more extensively approved and circulated. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 298 Numerous arterial canals..ramify extensively in the surrounding structures. 1879Lubbock Sci. Lect. v. 158 A period when bronze was extensively used for..implements.
2. In extent or scope; with respect to range of application. Often opposed to intensively. † extensively with: so as to be co-extensive with.
1645E. Calamy Indictm. agst. Eng. 3 Christ here sets out the greatnesse of the ruine..and that both Intensively, and Extensively. a1661Fuller Worthies, Westminster (1811) II. 103 Let it [Westminster] be taken..extensively with the Liberty of Lancaster from Temple Bar, and it filleth as much ground [etc.]. 1713Lond. Gaz. No. 5119/2 A Peace so extensively great in all its Circumstances. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 380 The most extensively learned book I ever saw. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. iii. (1852) 64 As truly we say, not as extensively; but in considering the justice of such substitution, the extent is of no moment. 1855Bain Senses & Int. iii. iii. §7 Increase of resemblance extensively..has the same power as increase of resemblance intensively, in rendering the restoration of the past more certain.
b. In extension (in Logic); with respect to extension. See extension 8 b.
1837Sir W. Hamilton Logic viii. (1866) I. 146 A notion is extensively great in proportion to the greater number..of determinations or attributes it contains under it. 1864Bowen Logic viii. 237 Reasoning Extensively, we say, men are a part or class of responsible agents, and are, therefore, also a part of free agents.
3. With respect to extension (or the quality of occupying space). See extension 7 b.
1888G. C. Robertson in Mind July 423 By more complex efforts..we distinguish this and that extensively within such body. |