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1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. x. f. 295 (margin) Analytically the profe hereof followeth among other thinges.

1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons iii. 23 in Elements Philos. Has he not proceeded Analytically in a hundred Problems?

1666 J. Collins Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 115 Problems that seem easy trigonometrically, but not so analytically.

1707 J. Ward Young Mathematician's Guide ii. v. 175 When any Problem or Question is proposed to be Analytically Resolved; it is very requisite that the true design or meaning thereof be fully and clearly comprehended.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. §2 ⁋88 To determine these Associations, both analytically and synthetically.

1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 182 Crystals of Glauber's salt may be resolved analytically into Sulphate of Soda and water, or compounded synthetically from these substances.

1872 Daily News 3 Oct. 2 Conic sections treated both geometrically and analytically.

1900 Science 11 May 734/2 Analytically the form of vibration has been attacked in various ways, especially by photography.

1925 Times 7 Apr. p. xv/4 Two paints may be analytically indistinguishable, and yet one may be a much better paint than the other.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIII. 390/1 Many physical problems lead to ordinary differential equations that cannot be solved analytically.

2004 K. Nakamura & T. Harayama Quantum Chaos & Quantum Dots ii. 12 Another important aspect of the semiclassical theory is that it makes it possible to evaluate the conductance analytically rather than numerically.

1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction iii. ix. 107 I had imployed the vttermost of my deuoir analytically to draw the materiall points of a whole printed quire of paper into short springs and heads.

1649 F. Roberts (title) Clavis Bibliorum. The Key of the Bible..Second edition, very much enlarged, with addition of the Scripture-Songs, metrically translated out of the Hebrew and analytically explained.

1778 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) IV. 114 To be distinct, we must talk analytically.

1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 167 The genuine poet works synthetically, or even in higher guise, prothetically, and never analytically.

1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iv. viii. 590 All persons analytically inclined.

1904 Elem. School Teacher 4 746 Professor O'Shea disclaims the desirability of dissecting and cataloguing the powers of the mind, or even analytically describing them for a study of educative adjustments.

1959 L. Reissman Class in Amer. Soc. ii. 42 Even Weber's analytically ingenious distinctions leave unsolved the precise character of the relationships between a community system of status and a national system of class.

2008 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 27 Aug. The speech delivered so doggedly by John Kerry..was analytically sharp and politically compelling.