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mutually, adv.|ˈmjuːtjuːəlɪ|
[f. mutual a. + -ly2.]
1. a. With mutual action or sentiment; in a mutual relation; reciprocally. Freq. in phr. mutually exclusive.
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden, No. 29) 8 They marched forward, and, drawing their blades mutually, ranne together with great cryes. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 211 b, The honest opinion yt the subiectes haue of their kyng and the hertie good wille of the prince mutually toward his subiectes. c1590Marlowe Faust (1604) C 2, As are the elements, such are the spheares, Mutually folded in each others orbe. 1682Norris Hierocles 27 We mutually promote each other in the advantages of virtue. 1751Harris Hermes Wks. (1841) 178 And thus is it that interrogatives and relatives mutually pass into each other. 1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. III. 4 These again are said to be mutually the same with each other. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre iv, We mutually embraced. 1874W. Wallace tr. Hegel's Logic ii. 30 Sense..is individual, and as the individual (which, reduced to its simplest terms, is the atom) is also a member of a series, sensible existence presents a number of mutually exclusive units. 1893Liddon, etc. Life Pusey I. xv. 348 If a good life always meant a true creed, many mutually contradictory errors would be true. 1908A. Bennett Jrnl. 5 Jan. (1932) I. 274 Every day's experience shows the folly of mutually-exclusive generalisations concerning two countries. 1969D. C. Hague Managerial Economics vii. 141 To be drawn up correctly, our list of probabilities must be such that if any one event occurs, this automatically rules out the possibility that any other event in the same list could also occur. The events will then be mutually exclusive.
†b. In return; as one side of a reciprocal action. Obs.
1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. vi. 10, I haue acquainted you With the deare loue I beare to faire Anne Page, Who, mutually, hath answer'd my affection,..Euen to my wish. 1699Bentley Phal. 247 This Account..establishes and is mutually establish'd by the Testimony of Suidas. 1704Newton Opticks iii. i. (1721) 345 Pellucid Substances act upon the Rays of Light at a distance..and the Rays mutually agitate the Parts of those Substances at a distance.
2. In mutual co-operation or companionship; by mutual agreement; jointly, in common.
1598Shakes. Merry W. v. v. 103 Pinch him (Fairies) mutually: Pinch him for his villanie. 1603― Meas. for M. ii. iii. 27 Duke. So then it seemes your most offence full act Was mutually committed. Jul. Mutually. 1653Walton Angler xi. 197 They mutually labour to cover it with the same sand. 1735Ld. Lyttelton Lett. fr. Persian (ed. 3) I. 141, I wou'd restore her back again to him untouch'd; or in case they shou'd mutually desire it, carry her with me to my Seraglio in the East. 1784J. Potter Virtuous Villagers I. 35 You have my free consent to marry, if you and she mutually wish it. 1786A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscr. II. 157 The loss we mutually sustained in the early death of our parents. a1817T. Dwight Trav. New Eng., etc. (1821) II. 187 The prisoners then began to walk within their room, at the same pace with that of their watchman: the sound of their feet being mutually heard.
†3. By both parties respectively. Obs.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 460 The Gouernours interrogation and my Confession being mutually subscribed. |