orthographicallyadv.
/ˌɔːθəˈɡrafᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌɔrθəˈɡræfək(ə)li/ 1. In accordance with correct or accepted spelling; in relation to spelling or orthography.
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society > communication > writing > spelling > [adverb] > in accordance with correct spelling
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1617 Janua Linguarum 140 I haue writ out my theame orthographically.
c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. i. §1 To wryte orthographicallie ther are to be considered the symbol, the thing symbolized, and their congruence.
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. Pref. 14 They know not how to write Orthographically six words of sence in their own Mother-tongue.
1802 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 13 10 When two words of distinct parentage and meaning become orthographically identical, the less usual of the two should be traced back to its original form, and employed in some one of its more antique but more distinguishable appearances.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 67 They could write orthographically, make smooth periods, and had the fashions of authorship almost literally at their fingers' ends.
1897 Science 2 July 15/2 Several following rules bear upon correction of names, orthographically or zoologically.
1949 Mod. Lang. Notes 64 535 The Normans simply kept this pronunciation, indicating it orthographically with an n.
1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 Nov. d 6/5 Improbably, there was also god, which struck me as a bit of a stretch orthographically, phonetically and otherwisely.
2. On the principle of orthographic projection.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [adverb] > type of projection
orthographically1669
stereographically1679
isometrically1840
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vi. 107 So have you the Sphere Orthographically in Right-Lines in the Convex-Sphere.
1721 J. Keill Introd. True Astron. xiii. 128 Upon this Circle the Earth's Equator, its Parallels, Poles, and all the other Circles which we imagined, are to be supposed Projected Orthographically.
1835 E. A. Poe Hans Pfaall in Wks. (1864) I. 35 The entire northern hemisphere lay beneath me like a chart orthographically projected.
1884 Science 18 Jan. 68/1 The earth's orbit (northern side uppermost) is shown orthographically projected upon the plane of the comet's orbit.
1934 Amer. Math. Monthly 41 151 It is on these planes, or on planes parallel to these, that the objects are generally projected (orthographically) in order to obtain their Mongean representatives (i.e., their pictures).
2002 Cadence (Nexis) 1 Oct. 37 Projected View. Using this, you can add a new view orthographically projected from an existing drawing view.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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