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proˈspectively, adv.
[f. prospective + -ly2.]
In a prospective manner.
1. With outlook upon or consideration of the future, with foresight; also, in anticipation or expectation of something to come.
1826J. S. Mill in Wks. (1967) IV. 75 The few who watch prospectively the signs of future supply and demand. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 418 Prospectively maintaining the same harmony between the existing powers of the tree, and the exigencies of its new situation. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. iv. 103 An annual outlay..is applied—prospectively as scholarship, or retrospectively as fellowship.
2. With bearing upon or application to the future.
1863H. Cox Instit. 1 Rules which..prospectively declare the rights and obligations which the State will enforce. 1885Law Times Rep. LII. 168/2 The Judicature Act 1875..cannot..apply prospectively to the Bankruptcy Act of 1883.
†3. = perspectively adv. 3 (for which in quot. it may be an error; but cf. prospective n. 7).
1557Recorde Whetst. H j, These nombers can not be expressed aptly in flatte, but prospectiuely, as Dice maie be made in protracture. |