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1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 96 O most dissembling crafty vice Flattery, not ocularly to be seene.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xv. 369 Andrew Thevet in his Cosmography doth ocularly overthrow it; for hee affirmeth, he saw an Asse with his saddle cast therein, and drowned. View more context for this quotation

1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 5 Wee are made certain, and do occularly behold that the thing is truly so.

1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield lxiii. 620 Years have elapsed since I had an opportunity of ocularly perusing the lineaments, now familiar to the imaginations of..the civilised world.

1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 150 22/1 Tender invitation, expressed verbally or ocularly.

1940 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 48 12 A man who is physically, ocularly blind may still be rated of normal intelligence.

1997 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 34 1400/2 Linear regression equations relating ocularly estimated weight..to oven dry weight.

1605 T. Digges & L. Digges Prognostication Euerlasting Right Good Effect sig. D4^v The quantities or rather true proportion of all the Planets vnto the earth, ocularly demonstrated by figure following.

1638 T. Jackson Treat. Consecration Sonne of God 12 The other passages in the same Psalme were ocularly exemplified and fulfilled in him.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 58 It is ocularly manifest.

1824 N. Amer. Rev. July 6 The very nature of the thing..forbids us to point out, ocularly, the influence of these intellectual instruments acting on the minds of men, as one may show the compass in the binnacle.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxix. 247 That the multiplication and colour of the images is owing to the causes now explained may be proved ocularly.

a1856 M. Barnett Serious Family (1896) ii. 12 Morally impossible, but ocularly a physical fact.

1961 Current Anthropol. 2 363/1 To the Eskimo..the ocularly visible apparition is not nearly as important as the purely auditory one.

1981 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 53 680 (note) The scientistic bias of Annaliste history generally and Braudel's ocularly materialist bias in particular.