perceptivelyadv.
/pəˈsɛptᵻvli/, U.S. /pərˈsɛptᵻvli/ In a perceptive manner; with regard to perception.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adverb]
sensiblya1398
sensually?a1425
palpablya1456
feelably?a1475
there1535
discernably1561
sensible1590
discernibly1645
distinguishably1704
perceptivelya1774
sensitively1797
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. xvii. 393 Our mental organization..can [never] produce an actual perception without a perceptive substance within to discern them; which substance cannot..perceptively reside unless in an individual.
1855 C. Dickens Lett. (1993) VII. 771 Enormous effect at Sheffield. But really not a better audience, perceptively, than at Peterboro'.
1899 E. S. Haldane J. F. Ferrier iii. 46 It is not an essential that feelings should be perceptively referred to an external object.
1960 S. H. Rivkin Mama's Meichulim 150 Looking down at our faces after the long prayers, Papa would say perceptively, ‘Children! They are not so hungry for religion as they are for knaidlach.’
1993 P. Marshall Amer. Princess (BNC) She..had once, it was plain, been a great beauty; but time, and grief, Sally-Anne thought perceptively as she moved to greet her, had worn her down.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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