modallyadv.

1647 M. Hudson Divine Right Govt. ii. ix. 130 Gods honour and the Kings are not really but onely modally and circumstantially different.

1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. iii. 9 By actions modally evil, they generally understand such as are substantially good, yet have some modal accidental vitiositie.

1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. i. 24 Things that are modally distinct, or distinct by a modal Abstraction, that is, whose distinction is owing to the consideration of them sometimes with one Mode only, and sometimes with another, tho' the same thing be in reality the common Subject of both.

1867 J. A. Froude Spinoza in Short Stud. (ed. 2) 232 Therefore because things modally distinguished do not quâ substance differ from one another there cannot be more than one substance of the same attribute.

1886 Mod. Lang. Notes 1 53/2 I may, can, or must learn are not, in any sense, modally different from I learn, or do learn.

1910 A. A. Macdonell Vedic Gram. for Students vii. 316 The unaugmented forms of past tenses used modally, are sometimes called improper subjunctives.

1956 Mind 65 468 If we paraphrase hypothetical statements modally or subjunctively, we are no longer tempted to think that they incorporate statements as components.

1984 Callaloo 20 49 Rousseau's Confessions, which begins as a novelistic romance and ends in a paranoid shambles, can hardly be considered modally consistent and all of a piece.

1991 Jrnl. Philos. 88 225 Nastassja is a twentieth-century figure, is not yet thirty years old, is Caucasian, and is of German descent; all are modally essential to her, if current essentialist doctrines are to be trusted.

1916 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2 453 The hornblende-mica-andesite of Mae yama..and the spherulitic dacite from Kosaka..are chemically similar, though modally quite unlike.

1950 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 106 40 Many of these basalts..show quartz in the norm and some contain it modally.

1971 Science 20 Aug. 692/2 Generally the rocks differ modally from earlier lunar samples in that they contain more plagioclase and contain orthopyroxene.

1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 464 Modally graded layers in rocks.

1936 Science 14 Aug. 156/2 There are modally three lithocysts between each of these puckerings of the rim.

1945 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 50 466/2 In the presence of objects which are conceptually described as ‘gasoline drums’, behavior will tend modally toward a given type.

1959 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 24 837 School districting tends to segregate youths of different social strata. Consequently school populations have modally different attitudes toward educational achievement.

1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at United States The Hispanic element is also diverse—modally Mexican mestizo, but ranging from pure Spanish to nearly pure pre-Spanish aboriginal.

1980 New Grove Dict. Music XII. 401/2 Given one modally correct voice, the rules of counterpoint would handle the rest of the polyphonic texture automatically.

1989 P. van der Merwe Origins of Pop. Style (1992) xxvii. 251 Modally, this theme is close to Chopin's Waltz in D♭.