explanatorilyadv.

1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iii. iii. 372 When God is said absolutely to Appear; and it is not added by vision, or dreams, &c. explanatorily: Then we are to understand it of Gods manifesting or representing himself.

1726 W. Penn Life in Wks. I. 37 All Laws are to be considered Strictly and Literally, or more Explanatorily and Lenitively.

1765 J. Elphinston Princ. Eng. Lang. Digested II. iii. i. 13 We can restrictively or explanatorily talk of all the Europe that we know.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xii. 110 The city which Mr. Podsnap so explanatorily called London, Londres.

1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 208 Miss Craven has had a fall..he remarks explanatorily.

1923 Boys' Life Sept. 9/3 The Dyaks halted... ‘Nedumah's country down there! No go!’ said one of them explanatorily.

1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 May 60/4 Consciousness is explanatorily irrelevant to anything physical that happens in the world.

2014 Times (Nexis) 12 Feb. 9 What, he was asked, did he mean by saying money was no object? ‘Money is no object!’ he said explanatorily. ‘We will spend what is necessary. We are a wealthy country.’