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materially, adv.|məˈtɪərɪəlɪ|
[f. material a. + -ly2.]
1. Chiefly Philos. and Logic. With regard to matter as opposed to form. Also, with regard to constituent matter; in respect of material cause.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) i. iii. 22 Some thynges they make in operacyon wythout all onely, the whiche thynges are not in the soule materyally. 1646J. Whitaker Uzziah 6 Men may doe many things right materially.., and yet themselves..may not be upright. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋250 A Catarrhe is materially from vapours out of the stomack. 1658Baxter Saving Faith iii. 18 May I not say, that materially a Ship and a Barge do differ but gradually, because ex materia they are not a Ship or Barge? 1675R. Burthogge Causa Dei 59 Though the Damned sin materially..yet 'tis a great Question whether they may be rationally affirmed formally to sin there. 1685South Twelve Serm. (1692) 482 An Ill Intention is certainly sufficient to spoil..an Act in itself Materially Good. 1685,1697[see formally 1]. 1864Bowen Logic ii. 42 What is formally correct may be materially false. 1876L. Stephen Eng. Th. in 18th C. II. ix. vi, The good deeds of the heathen, like the good deeds of the brutes, are materially not formally virtuous.
2. In, by, with, or in respect of matter or material substance; ‘in the state of matter’ (J.).
1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. i. (1636) 273 Superficies [are] the bounds of a body, which is that which hath imaginatively, but not materially, both length, bredth, and depth. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. ix. 124 The generation of bodies is not effected..of soules, that is, by Irradiation,..but therein a transmission is made materially from some parts, and Ideally from every one. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 32 All rightful Kings are so, whether they be materially anointed..or not. 1717L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 175 As he created all Men out of the same matter, they are materially equal.
†3. Of speaking or writing: With an appropriate or sound use of matter; soundly; to the point. Obs.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxi. §7 There is small doubt but that men can write best and most really & materialy in their owne professions. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 266 Finding nothing of substance in him, which is not more materially, perspicuously, profitably, and familiarly..expressed by them. 1638Featly Strict. Lyndom. i. 13 What hee materially answereth to the Knights allegations. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iii. 70 Bœtius de Boot,..in his Tract, de lapidibus & gemmis, speakes very materially hereof. 1749Chesterfield Lett. (1792) II. 282 The late Lord Townshend always spoke materially with argument and knowledge, but never pleased.
4. In a material degree; to a material or important extent; substantially, considerably.
1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 179 There are many Circumstances most materially considerable in them, as their age, their humour, their inclination. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. Misc. v. iii. 332 It is sufficient that they know that those Copys which they leave, are not materially corrupted. 1817Shelley Let. to Godwin 7 Dec., My health has been materially worse. 1846Grote Greece i. xvii. (1862) II. 422 Tribes differing materially in habits and civilization. 1853Bright Sp., India 3 June (1876) 11 To comprehend how materially the great manufacturing interests are concerned. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 126 Short cuts, by..which the road was materially shortened.
5. In respect of material interests.
1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 9 People with whom the world goes fairly well materially. |