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instrumentally, adv.|ɪnstruːˈmɛntəlɪ|
[f. instrumental a. + -ly2.]
1. In an instrumental manner; in the way of instrumentality.
a. As an instrument or means; by being employed for some purpose.
1581Sherwin in Confer. i. (1584) E iv, Faith iustifieth instrumentally. 1608A. Willet Hexapla Exod. 41 Angels..may instrumentallie pronounce the blessings of God. 1711G. Cary Phys. Phylactick 146 God..Excommunicates Efficiently, the Clergy do it Instrumentally, as his Instruments. a1795Burke Popery Laws iii. i. Wks. IX. 362 They will argue, that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. 1871Daily News 1 Feb., To acknowledge it..as instrumentally capable of bringing about the meeting of a ‘National Assembly’.
b. By the agency of another thing or person; by an instrument or means.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus iii. 1 The spirit indeed doth it principally, but by the word in the ministery instrumentally. a1631Donne Ess. (1651) 141 They must do it instrumentally by others. a1871in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xxxiii. 18–19 She never knew to whom she was instrumentally indebted for this timely and merciful assistance.
2. a. By means of a (material or legal) instrument.
1611Florio, Instrumentalmente, by deed, instrument, euidence or writing, instrumentally. 1633T. James Voy. 69, I tooke the height of it instrumentally. 1760Pemberton in Phil. Trans. LI. 910 A problem..proposed, and solved instrumentally upon a globe. 1807Hutton Course Math. II. 7 In the Third Method, Or Instrumentally, as suppose by the log. lines on one side of the common two-foot scales.
b. With or upon a musical instrument.
1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5487/3 Mr. Purcell's Te Deum will be vocally and instrumentally performed. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. i. 27 The earlier Fathers of the Church..condemned musical Devotion when instrumentally accompanied. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. xiii. 373 Schools..in which the music of the church was taught vocally and instrumentally.
3. Gram. In or by the instrumental case.
1846M. Monier-Williams Elem. Gram. Sanscrit Lang. 160 Instrumentally Dependent..those [compounds] in which the relation of the first word (being in the crude) to the last is equivalent to that of an instrumental case. |