phraseologicallyadv.
/ˌfreɪzɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌfreɪziəˈlɑdʒək(ə)li/ In a phraseological way; from a phraseological point of view; in the manner of a phrase, as a phrase.
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1716 L. Howel Compl. Hist. Holy Bible I. ii. 169 (note) The Word Uncircumcised is phraseologically used on several Occasions by the Hebrews.
1796 J. B. Gilchrist Gram. Hindoostanee Lang. 247 So much has been observed, on the formation of words by re-duplication, that I have little to add on the subject here, though it in some measure belongs, if phraseologically considered to the Syntax.
1861 Illustr. London News 2 Feb. 108/1 To experimentalise on a portion of that stone with a substance called ‘zopissa’—phraseologically borrowed from Dioscorides..pitch-plaster.
1867 Nation (N.Y.) 3 Jan. 9/1 When the verb faire is used phraseologically with a substantive.
1964 Films in Rev. Mar. 164/2 It could be better organized, and here and there more felicitous phraseologically.
1995 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 39 251 A collapse of the distinction in lexemes which are very common in certain local senses and tend to be fixed phraseologically.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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