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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 360^v The same is more easely and redely found geometrically by the globes.

1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 9 The fine knottes are doen in good arte, Geometrically figured.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 458 Praise..becometh their Due on whom it is bestowed (if not Geometrically squared to their Desert).

1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 129 The Plan of the Bay of Coquimbo, on the Coast of Chili..taken Geometrically.

1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xxxi. 139 The Peak of St. George..its Height may easily be ascertained geometrically.

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 105 The animals composing this genus inhabit the sea..moving geometrically like the larvæ of the Phalænadæ.

1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 125 We have thus constructed a new electrical system, in which every conductor S of the original system is represented geometrically by a surface S′.

1916 H. W. Yoxall Let. 22 Sept. in Fashion of Life (1966) iv. 32 The creeping barrage which went in front of our assaulting lines was almost geometrically straight.

1964 Life 24 July 53/1 His power with the people would diminish, the first three months arithmetically, the second three geometrically.

2007 New Scientist 10 Mar. 32/3 Quantum behaviour, he claims, can be understood geometrically—particles move along fractal trajectories.

1654 J. Newton Institutio Mathematica v. 116 In the first column of the ensuing Table the numbers Geometrically proportional being 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, [etc.].

1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 56 When two Ratio's are equal, the Terms that Compose them are said to be Geometrically Proportional.

1896 W. Norris ‘Otto’ Cycle Gas Engine v. 75 It is assumed for purposes of convenience that flywheels of different sizes are geometrically proportional in their various parts.

2010 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 3 May 54 Control response is geometrically proportional to side-stick movement, facilitating small, precise corrections.

1607 T. Tomkis Lingua iv. i And my wheele shall be Geometrically proportioned into 7. or 9. concaue incircled armes.

1643 C. Herle Answer to Fernes Reply 36 Nor matters it whether this coordination..be arithmettically or geometrically proportioned.

1747 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 449 Sounds of minute Duration will be expressed by the Pencils by small Hatches geometrically proportion'd to those Durations.

1845 Freemasons' Q. Rev. 31 Dec. 442 The marks are usually..simply cut or traced in the stone with a chisel, without line or rule, so they are not, in general, geometrically proportioned.

2003 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 62 469/1 Final project drawings..were carefully drawn to scale and geometrically proportioned.