pyramidicallyadv.
/ˌpɪrəˈmɪdᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌpɪrəˈmɪdᵻk(ə)li/ In a pyramidical manner or shape; pyramidally.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adverb] > triangle > pyramid
pyramidally1561
pyramid-wise1589
pyramidicallya1634
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely
hugelyc1380
huge1508
enormly1538
monstruously?1548
massively1550
monstrously1602
a worlda1616
hugeouslya1643
immensely1654
vastly1664
swingingly1668
hugeous1673
gigantically1678
vast1688
swingeing1690
thumpingly1693
enormously1695
pancratically1727
immense1754
colossally1809
whooping1866
monumentally1877
pyramidically1886
pyramidally1891
galactically1968
a1634 W. Austin Haec Homo (1637) v. 87 For the forme, it is sometime made Pyramidically (broad below, and narrow upwards) and sometimes of an equall breadth throughout.
1697 N. Luttrell Diary 28 Oct. in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 298 A very noble bonefire..consisting of about 140 pitcht barrels, placed pyramidically on 7 scaffolds.
1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. 44 A frame of timber was erected, four square,..the gradations still ascending pyramidically to the top.
1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 37 A correspondent continuation of the external angles appears within, and they seem to contract a little, pyramidically.
1848 Sci. Amer. 23 Sept. 387 All the great continental masses terminate pyramidically on the South.
1886 D. C. Murray First Person Sing. xxiii She is terribly rich. Awfully, colossally, pyramidically rich.
1958 Social Forces 37 141 Some societies are pyramidically stratified with each caste being more numerous than the next higher up.
2003 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 16 Apr. 8 When burnt, the ashes are piled up pyramidically to about the length of the lamb.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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