1649 F. Roberts (title) Clavis Bibliorum. The Key of the Bible..Second edition, very much enlarged, with addition of the Scripture-Songs, metrically translated out of the Hebrew and analytically explained.

1789 Elegant Extracts, Poetry (1816) Pref. 7 Explaining every thing grammatically, historically, metrically, and critically.

1819 T. Campbell Ess. Eng. Poetry I. ii. 113 The heroic measure of Chaucer will be found in general..to be metrically correct.

1879 Mind 4 492 Notes may be metrically strung together without presenting anything we could call a melodic form.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Sept. 546/5 An awful warning to any future translator tempted to indulge in the pleasures of what, metrically speaking, might be described as Pounding the beat.

1991 Music & Lett. 72 74 Metrically different feet can be adapted to fit a single, homogeneous pattern of rhythmic composition.

1901 Amer. Math. Monthly 8 34 When Lobachevsi, Bolyai and Riemann made new kinds of geometry of which the Euclidean is only a special case, then the very foundations were cut away from under the Kantian system of philosophy... The Scotch philosophy accounts for this supposed absolute, metrically exact knowledge, by teaching that there are in the human mind certain synthetic theorems.

1903 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 1 It is hardly necessary to remark that it is the metrically normal form of the general rational plane curve of class three with isolated double line.

1957 Jrnl. Philos. 54 721 Even metrically, there are invariant properties, such as the rest-mass and rest-length of a body.

1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 14775 The formerly largest map had 10,850 loci ordered but not metrically integrated.

1969 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 25/2 A builder of iron and steel plants has found his design time reduced by 15 per cent. when working metrically.

1993 R. J. Pond Introd. Engin. Technol. (ed. 2) 323 Converting a metrically designed automobile to U.S. customary units before manufacture.