genericallyadv.

1635 S. Birckbek Protestants Evid. (new ed.) xvi.188 Besides, we answer, that Waldo, Wickliffe and Husse, with others, agree with us not onely Generically, in the common grounds of Christianitie, but Specifically in those formall points, which we hold at this day against the Romane Church.

1651 tr. Supreme Power Christian States Vindicated 168 The summe of his Arguments tends to this, that he may shew Ecclesiastick functions to differ generically and totally from those of the secular power.

1696 J. Sergeant Method to Sci. i. iv. 46 The Predicaments are so many Heads of Notions Generically distinct.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. 30 We suppose other Beings generically the same, and yet numerically different.

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. vii. 125 These two kinds of Writing are generically, and essentially, distinct.

1839 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 7 388 We are, therefore, willing to confine ourselves, with our German author [sc. Zeis], to the use of the simple expression ‘Plastic surgery’, which is sufficient to imply generically all we mean.

1877 R. Giffen Stock Exchange Securities 46 The operations of such syndicates are usually accompanied by market manœuvres which are described generically by the name of ‘rigs’.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 2/1 The only other serious difficulty [with the Wright biplane] seems to be what is known, generically, as ‘engine trouble’... The forms that this ‘engine trouble’ takes are various, as every motorist knows.

1960 Amer. Speech 35 263 Korean men, women, boys and girls were known generically and individually as papa-san, mama-san, boy-san and jo-san.

1987 H. W. Kroto in Nature 8 Oct. 529/2 It is convenient to retain this name for C₆₀ and use the name fullerene generically for the class of all closed carbon cages.

2001 N.Y. Times 2 May a17/3 On another tape..Mr. Blanton can be heard speaking generically about bombings without admitting to anything specific about the 16th Street attack.

1872 J. W. Wallace Cases Supreme Court U.S. 13 316 The answer denied that the name ‘Lackawanna coal’ was, or ever had been, the peculiar property and trade-mark of the complainants... It..averred the contrary; affirming that they were equally Lackawanna coal, and known by that name, as the evidence tended to show that generically they were.

1896 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 163 180 Abundant corroborative proof that the word ‘Singer’ became generically descriptive of the machines manufactured by the Singer Company is afforded by the conduct of that company... Only occasionally was the word ‘Singer’ alone attached to any of the machines.

1903 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 187 538 I desired to give a name which would be new and original to distinguish my product from all the laxative medicines, and which would be pleasantly suggestive, and, after thinking over a number of names, I decided to use the name ‘Syrup of Figs’. I knew that I was not using the name generically, because figs did not give character and effect to the combination.

1967 Times Rev. Industry Mar. 41/1 Although Dictaphone was the first company to sell dictating machines, it no longer holds the pride of place in the market and the use of its name ‘generically’ in speech is now largely historical.

1973 Sci. Amer. Sept. 162/2 The pharmacist..is in a position to select the brand when the prescription is written generically.

2002 Fine Woodworking Mar.–Apr. 57 Several products, generically called router lifts, have entered the market.

2007 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 1/4 The reformulated form of Prozac, or, as it is called generically, fluoxetine, will be marketed under the name Reconcile.