anthropologicallyadv.
/ˌanθrəpəˈlɒdʒᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌænθrəpəˈlɑdʒək(ə)li/ According to the science of anthropology (anthropology n. 2b); in an anthropological way.
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1839 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 213 It would be interesting, anthropologically speaking, to enquire whether there are any diversities of musical style characteristic of the leading divisions or subdivisions into which our species has been classed.
1883 Knowledge 6 July 7/1 The anthropologically-minded Africans had picked up more information about him than he had about them.
1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 548/1 Although the Ingushes speak a Chechen dialect, they have recently been proved to be, anthropologically, quite a distinct race.
1985 I. M. Lewis Social Anthropol. in Perspective (ed. 2) xi. 365 Malinowski..was himself well aware of the anthropologically constructed character of ethnography.
2011 New Statesman (Nexis) 25 July 52 The anthropologically inclined saw the journey into Hades as another version of the primitive myth of death and rebirth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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