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fundamentally, adv.|fʌndəˈmɛntəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a fundamental manner.
†1. From the foundation or bottom upwards, thoroughly. Obs.
1602F. Herring Anat. 21 Fundamentally learne the Noble Art of Physicke. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. i. iii. 7 It is undeniable, that wounds ought to be cured fundamentally, not superficially. 1662Petty Taxes 27 Men..cobble up old houses, until they become fundamentally irreparable.
2. In fundamental or essential matters or points, as regards fundamentals, essentially.
1628T. Spencer Logick 236 To conclude this point of Connext axiomes; I hope it doth now appeare, that, they are fundamentally, and indeed no other but simple. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 110 There can be nothing more fundamentally Antichristian than it. 1701J. Law Counc. Trade (1751) 5 Such as fundamentally, at least understand arithmetic and accompts. 1748Chesterfield Lett. 16 Feb. (1870) My health..though not fundamentally bad, yet..wanted some repairs. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 125 The simple governments are fundamentally defective. 1827Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 325 Fundamentally, the process consists in [etc.]. 1880H. James Diary of Man of Fifty 324, I was fundamentally not the least addicted to thinking evil.
¶3. jocularly. At the fundament or ‘seat’.
1836E. Howard R. Reefer v, Oh! those floggings, how deceptive they were, and how much I regretted them when I came to understand the thing fundamentally. 1842[see dephlogisticate v. 2]. |