notionallyadv.

1643 T. Goodwin Aggravation Sinne 74 They have learnt it from..observations of Gods dealings with themselves or others, and not onely from the word notionally.

1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 65 When we talk of Religion we should..discourse of it not Notionally and Speculatively,..but Cordially and Spiritually.

1752 W. Law Spirit of Love (1816) i. 9 The Schools have..shown us how to conceive them as notionally distinguished from one another.

1771 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 3 1609 In the Country, Leases at Will, in the strict legal Notion of a Lease at Will,..exist only notionally.

1850 Biblical Repertory Apr. 178 It is one thing to know a truth naturally or notionally, and another to know it spiritually.

1868 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 58 Something notional or notionally affirmed.

1908 Philos. Rev. 17 31 Merely to argue against this idea ‘notionally’ would be of no avail.

1950 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 113 381 The annual figures of available supplies give a near approximation to consumption, though estimates are only notionally by calendar years.

1988 D. Profumo See Mus. (1989) viii. 85 They settled over the cattle grid that marked where the town was notionally divided from the moorland.