linguallyadv.
/ˈlɪŋɡwəli/, /ˈlɪŋɡwl̩i/, U.S. /ˈlɪŋɡwəli/ 1. With regard or in relation to language; linguistically.
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the mind > language > [adverb]
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1834 E. Moor Oriental Fragments 369 This may serve to show the difficulties of etymologists,..and what licences may be taken and allowed, when ages and oceans have rolled between the regions thus attempted to be lingually re-united.
1897 Univ. Chicago School Rev. Jan. 15 The youth who lives in a home with a library is separated, lingually, by a measureless chasm, from the youth who lives without books.
1918 S. Rudnicky Ukraine ii. 169 Soon after the beginnings of historical life in Eastern Europe we see these Slavic races divided lingually into three groups.
2007 R. Stackelberg Routledge Compan. Nazi Germany i. iii. 45 All narrative accounts of the past are lingually constructed from a particular perspective.
2. Chiefly Dentistry. On or towards the lingual aspect of a tooth or jaw (see lingual adj. 2c).
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > [adverb] > tongue
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1881 J. F. Flagg Plastics & Plastic Filling 203 Having very frail, thin walls both buccally and lingually.
1902 Dental Digest 8 925 I have seen some cases of compound cavities which started at a point of structural defect perhaps two millimeters distant lingually from the contact.
1910 Practitioner Jan. 115 Internally (lingually), the neck of the tooth..is embraced by a thin shallow flap of gum.
1963 J. Osborne Dental Mech. (ed. 5) viii. 112 During eruption..the facial muscles push the teeth lingually.
2006 K. D. Rose Beginning Age Mammals iv. 54/1 The cusps are not directly aligned, but form an obtuse angle, with the front and back cusps rotated slightly lingually on the lower teeth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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