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scientifically, adv.|saɪənˈtɪfɪkəlɪ|
[f. scientifical + -ly2.]
1. In a scientific manner; according to the laws of science; † by means of ‘scientific’ or demonstrative reasoning.
1640J. Stoughton Def. & Distrib. Div. i. 18 Many things he did know then scientifically, which now he doth so much as opinionatively. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 227 Consider what the Subject of it is, Scientifically comprehended. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 217 The tortoises of the northern states are of several species but have not been scientifically designated. 1855Kingsley Glaucus 69 A party of genera and species which connect families scientifically far apart. 1876E. R. Lankester Hist. Creat. I. i. 6 We are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a non-miraculous history of the developement of the human race. 1885FitzGerald in Law Rep. 10 App. Cases 227 The law upon this subject has been properly and scientifically put in a later case.
2. Systematically, methodically, thoroughly.
1922Wodehouse Jill Reckless i. 28 Freddie poked the fire scientifically, and assisted it with coal. 1965Listener 30 Dec. 1077/2 Three friends scientifically mete out to a bully the same bullying he administered to a small boy.
3. Comb., as scientifically-minded adj.
1927B. Russell Analysis of Matter xiv. 130 Levers and pulleys, falling bodies, collisions of billiard balls, etc., are all familiar in everyday life, and it is a pleasure to the scientifically minded youth to find them amenable to mathematical treatment. 1931H. N. Shenton et al. Internat. Communication i. 63 Associations of scientifically-minded persons can continually bring to the problem of verbal communication the rapidly growing possibilities of social engineering. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 174 Wisecracks which..scientifically minded boys indulge in when, at about twelve years old, they begin to take up their subject in earnest. 1977P. Fitzgerald Knox Brothers iv. 107 It was neither weakness nor compromise to try to reach this kind of unity with millions of the half-persuaded and the scientifically-minded. |