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critically, adv.|ˈkrɪtɪkəlɪ|
[f. critical + -ly2.]
In a critical manner.
1. With critical judgement or observation; nicely, accurately, precisely.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 504 Though not Critically translated. a1660Hammond Wks. IV. 498 (R.) Would we but look critically into ourselves. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) I. xv. 265, I inquired of him more critically, what was become of them? 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne I. xvii. 285 Miss Gladwin eyed her critically. 1883A. Roberts O.T. Revision viii. 168 A critically revised text of the Septuagint translation.
†2.
a. With exactness in regard to time, place, etc.; exactly, precisely, punctually. Obs.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. i. i. §15 Others more warily affirm, that it doth not punctually and critically bud on Christmas day. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 272 An account, which..was critically just. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. iii. §2 The point of concourse..must fall critically upon the retina, or the vision is confused. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xl. (1856) 363 This hole was critically circular.
b. So as to determine or decide; decisively. rare.
1857Keble Euchar. Adorat. 36 This..is no exception, but critically confirms our allegation.
†3. At or in relation to the crisis of a disease.
1655Culpepper Riverius i. xiv. 50 If the humors be cast down thither critically by Nature. c1670Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend xi, That..distemper of little children..wherein they critically break out with harsh Hairs on their backs, which takes off the unquiet symptoms.
†4. At a critical moment; in the nick of time.
1693Congreve Double Dealer i. i, Here's the coxcomb most critically come to interrupt you. 1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake I. iv. 33 The Hatches were opened, and indeed very critically, for a Minute's Confinement longer would have terminated in our Destruction. 1799T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 263 Could these debates be ready to appear critically, their effect would be decisive.
5. In a critical situation or condition; perilously, dangerously.
1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 192 note, Thus critically circumstanced. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxv. 329 The toppling ice..critically suspended, met above our heads. 1889Pall Mall G. 30 Apr. 6/3 The Swazi King is critically ill.
6. Physics. In a critical state: see critical 7.
1881T. M. Williams in Knowledge No. 8. 157 Elementary substances may exist as solids, liquids, or gases, or critically, according to the conditions of temperature and pressure.
7. Comb., as critically-minded adj.; also absol.
1906Daily Chron. 1 May 3/3 The critically-minded might find fault with some of the drawing. 1938Mind XLVII. 196 Has there ever been a philosopher against whom critically-minded successors have not been able to bring the charge of unconscious self-contradiction? |