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nuˈmerically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. As regards number; with respect to number.
1628T. Spencer Logick 66 Both of them are one numerically, because each of them haue a bodie, flesh, and bones. 1691Baxter Nat. Ch. viii. 30 When the Subjects are various and really divided Numerically, there the Accidents are divers and divided. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. §5. 30 We suppose other Beings generically the same and yet numerically different. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. III. xxv. 76 Something that is numerically one and undivided. 1850‘Bat’ Cricket. Man. 86 Numerically speaking, these rivals are upon a par. 188119th Cent. IX. 564 The community has never increased numerically except within itself.
†b. Used with same (or one) to emphasize the idea of identity. (Cf. prec. 3.) Obs.
1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide 58 May not the same thing numerically be the subject of accidents specifically different? 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 46 According to this Hypothesis, the Souls of Animals could not be numerically the same throughout the whole space of their lives. 1710[Bedford] Vindic. Ch. Eng. 64 If both those Subscriptions were made to numerically the same Articles. 1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. ii. 79 The attributes of God..are numerically and entirely one with his essence.
2. By means of numbers.
1728Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead II. 42 If it measures or divides space numerically, it cannot be a Spirit. 1774Phil. Trans. LXIV. 386 These Indians cannot reckon numerically beyond six. 1802Ibid. XCII. 96 Which value of π may be numerically computed. 1859Darwin Orig. Species ii. (1873) 46, I have endeavoured to test this numerically by averages. |