abstractivelyadv.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvi. 671/1 They who..abstractiuelie disputed these highest questions.

1642 T. Goodwin Christ set Forth 23 To view Christ in his meere personall excellencies abstractively considered.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 205 So that life which abstractively is good, by Accidents and Adherencies may become unfortunate.

1795 W. Patten Christianity App. 132 This is true, of reason abstractively considered; but not of reason as a faculty in creatures.

1821 A. Kohlmann Unitarianism Examined (ed. 3) v. 210 As to wisdom, if taken abstractively, it is self-evident that it cannot mean a person.

1890 Occidental Med. Times Oct. 560 Symptoms should not be considered abstractively, but referred back to their cause and seat.

1921 R. B. Haldane Reign of Relativity iv. 80 The parallelism of the non-intersecting successive moments of the same time system with the abstractively reached contents of the first moment.

1990 D. F. Goodwin tr. K. Bühler Theory Lang. 408 The grammarian will always need such concrete sentences as examples, but he will always correctly treat them..as realizations from which the forms can be abstractively extracted.

a1651 C. Love Combate Flesh & Spirit (1654) 7 The meaning of the word, the letter, that is, the word of God abstractively considered from the Spirit of God, that kills, it leaves a man in a dead estate.

1682 H. Ludolf Hist. Ethiopia (1684) iii. viii. 313 They acknowledge both Mabqot and Tesbet the Divinity and Humanity to be both Abstractively and Conjunctively in Christ.

1759 tr. J.-H.-S. Formey Philos. Misc. 278 Let us survey this Question in two Points of View in itself, that is, abstractively from Proofs of Fact, and with the Help of these Proofs.