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1845 Freemasons' Monthly Mag. 1 Jan. 73 Philological investigations recently made have been adduced to show that the language of the Iroquois, ideologically and etymologically, has the same original as the ancient Greek.

1862 A. H. Rhind Thebes vii. 196 With whatever rigidity it [sc. Egyptian religion] may have retained many outlines, its history, ideologically, was developmental.

1927 J. A. Joffe tr. L. Sabaneyeff Mod. Russ. Composers 132 But not even these latter could escape the influence of the intensity of musical gifts of the National School, even though at variance with them ideologically.

1936 J. F. Hecker in J. Lewis et al. Christianity & Social Revol. ii. iv. 318 While ideologically there was little in common between them, they were victims of the same enemy, and hence certain sympathies were inevitably developed.

1957 P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound iii. 67 It..represents a conscious step towards the establishment of forms of organization, which..were independent both organizationally and ideologically.

1970 Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 12 As China's strength and numbers grow she becomes less prepared..to play second fiddle to Russia ideologically.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Dec. 28/1 During the past decade the party, now numbering more than 200,000, moved to the center ideologically, much as the Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) did during the democratization of Spain in the 1970s.

1861 S. Wilberforce in Q. Rev. Jan. 282 They ideologically suggest that, when it is asserted that our Lord miraculously fed the multitudes..no more is meant than that..he fed the souls of thousands with edifying moral discourses.

1865 E. de Bunsen Hidden Wisdom Christ I. vii. 357 The Jews..would not understand that the commandments of the law were always intended to be spiritually or ideologically explained.