centricallyadv.

a1631 J. Donne LXXX Serm. (1640) xl. 398 God alone is centrically, radically, directly to be loved.

1664 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Wks. cxiii. 795 Neither is it [sc. a kitchen fire] reckoned true fire, unless it be hot in the highest degree, unless it centrically stick fast with its connexed beams, in the crest of Light.

c1773 J. G. W. De Brahm Rep. Gen Surv. Southern District N. Amer. (BL Kings MS 210) f. 52 Three broad Streets.., and three other.., centrically crossing each other, divides the City in six equal Quarters.

1779 Anticipation Continued 42 In him were centrically placed all the social virtues.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 445 The bone is seldom fractured, unless the ball strikes centrically.

1810 Duke of Wellington Let. 26 July in Dispatches (1838) VI. 297 In the pine wood..where they will be more centrically situated.

1834 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. July 390 The front pad is made much larger..so as to press centrically upon the region to which it is applied.

1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iv. ii. 507 A pile of balls standing exactly centrically one upon the other, an arrangement which seems hardly possible.

1902 Nature 8 May 42/2 A stream of air from a circular hole in a thin plate impinges centrically upon a similar hole in a parallel plate held at a little distance.

1980 Crit. Inq. 6 491 But now change your visual conception of the cube into that of a centrically symmetrical structure, and in a flash the whole situation looks different!

2006 G. Blight Assessing Loads on Silos & Other Bulk Storage Structures iv. 87 The silo has been filled centrically and is then emptied eccentrically.