graphicallyadv.
/ˈɡrafɪkəli/ In a graphic or graphical manner.† 1. By means of drawing or painting. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adverb]
graphically1658
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall ii. 28 Vrnes..handsomely described, and graphically represented by the Learned Physician Wormius.
2. As in a picture; clearly, picturesquely, vividly.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [adverb]
graphically1576
descriptively1735
1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions Ep. to Rdr. Which ..abuse manye learned Clerkes bewaylinge haue..by wryting and otherwise graphicallye depainted.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Graffically, cunningly done.]
1655 Bp. J. Richardson Observ. Old Test. 419 Very Rhetorical delineations do follow of their miseries by this invasion of Nebuchadnezzar, graphicaly as in a Map described.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 290 None more Graphically expresses them than these Facetious Verses.
1711 J. Dennis Ess. Publick Spirit 11 To paint the Manners of our own Times graphically.
1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling Pref. 13 I sallied out one day to the river Ayr, with a bent pin for a hook, as Christopher North has described so graphically and well.
1883 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 68/2 The sea-banks and droves of the north..tell us more graphically than any records, how the ‘Marshland’ was won from the raging sea.
3. † a. In the manner of writing. Obsolete.
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society > communication > writing > [adverb]
graphically1609
scriptorially1823
1609 B. Jonson Masque of Queens in Wks. (1616) 964 After it, succeeded their third dance; then which, a more numerous composition could not be seene, Graphically disposed into Letters and honoring the name of..Prince Charles.
b. By means of or in respect of written signs.
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society > communication > writing > [adverb] > by means of writing
graphically1861
1861 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 (1862) 30 197 (note) The original [Sanskrit] does not graphically characterize v from b.
1900 N.E.D. at Graphically Mod. The verbs rede and read differ only graphically; in etymology and pronunciation they are the same word.
4. By the use of graphic methods; by the construction of diagrams or graphs.
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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [adverb]
graphically1771
nomographically1949
1771 Pemberton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 450 All the particulars usually inquired into in solar eclipses may..be assigned graphically with scale and compass.
1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxxvii. 417 A curve is thus constructed graphically by means of the angles of position and the corresponding times of observation.
1866 W. Odling Lect. Animal Chem. 27 We should..represent populin graphically..by the residues of three circles conjoined with one another.
1879 Spottiswoode in Proc. London Math. Soc. 10 209 Graphically, the form itself will be represented by —0—; —0—) or . . . .
1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 215 The velocity at P may be graphically represented..as the resultant of two forces from P towards A and B.
1886 G. Chrystal Algebra I. i. 333 Solve graphically the equation x3 − 16x2+ 71x − 129 = 0.
1895–6 Cal. Univ. Nebraska 253 The measurements are plotted graphically upon a chart.
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