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philoˈsophically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
a. In a philosophic or philosophical manner; according to philosophical rules or principles; as befits a philosopher; from a philosophical point of view.
1580G. Harvey 3 Lett. Wks. (Grosart) I. 64 Partly Philosophically, partly Theologically set downe. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 717 If I have written anything over-much philosophically that dissenteth from the true professed Religion. 1741–3Wesley Extract of Jrnl. (1749) 81 Who will either disprove this fact or philosophically account for it. 1825Macaulay Ess., Milton (1887) 12 But, though philosophically in the wrong, we cannot but believe that he was poetically in the right. 1873Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes III. iii. 75 The practical husbands and wives who take things philosophically are very humdrum, are they not? 1888Daily News 16 July 4/7 Philosophically indifferent as to the question of who are in power. 1898G. B. Shaw Widowers' Houses (rev. ed.) ii. 46 Trench..tries to take his disenchantment philosophically. 1933E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! i. 43 Mrs. Miller. (stares after him worriedly—then sighs philosophically). 1971Countryman Autumn 112 Suddenly the third member of the brood swooped down from its perch in a nearby spruce and flew back to the tree with the worm in its beak. The hen [blackbird] philosophically started again. 1977K. O'Hara Ghost of T. Penry xi. 97 He..switched off Joe's lamp. Philosophically coiling down the cord, Joe said ‘Exactly.’
b. Comb., as philosophically-minded adj.
1942R. G. Collingwood New Leviathan xliii. 365 We know too much about the Bogomils to be content with a Gibbonesque, eighteenth-century picture of them as simple, philosophically minded innocents. 1955Sci. Amer. July 73/1 Only a few scientists had been philosophically minded, but today physicists are almost all philosophers. |