释义 |
modally, adv.|ˈməʊdəlɪ| [f. modal + -ly2.] In a modal respect; with reference to mode or manner.
1647M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. ii. ix. 130 Gods honour and the Kings are not really but onely modally and circumstantially different. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. i. 21 Things that are modally distinct, or distinct by a modal abstraction, that is, whose distinction is owing [etc.]. 1867Froude Short Stud., Spinoza (ed. 2) 232 Therefore because things modally distinguished do not quâ substance differ from one another there cannot be more than one substance of the same attribute. |