radiallyadv.
/ˈreɪdɪəli/, U.S. /ˈreɪdiəli/ In a radial manner; in the form or direction of radii or diverging rays.
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the world > matter > light > [adverb] > in a radiant manner
radiantly?1520
shone1595
beamingly1662
radially1662
beamilya1821
irradiatingly1893
the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [adverb] > in a radial manner
radially1662
radiantly?1795
radiately1803
spokewise1844
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xxxvi. 274 I knew that its [sc. the soul's] whole did shine only radially [L. tantum radialiter] on the ignoble parts.
1776 A. Wilson Of Activity of Light in Med. Res. 290 The sun..is perpetually agitating it [sc. the supposed fluid of light] either radially, or obliquely by the lateral shocks and friction of these radii.
1794 Politics for People (1795) II. xiv. 223 The unnumbered host of plebeians departed in peace. As they went off radially, or in all directions as from a centre, in a few minutes they disappeared.
c1860 M. Faraday Electric Light in Var. Forces Nature 189 A number of magnets placed radially upon a wheel.
1878 A. H. Green et al. Coal: Hist. & Uses iii. 77 The primary medullary rays extend..radially from pith to bark.
1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iii. 62 Individual leaves set radially round an arch or label to form a continuous enrichment.
1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) viii. 98 The Echinodermata are radially symmetrical animals that have a body cavity or coelom.
1997 Oxoniensia 61 331 Oak planks were now cut tangentially by saw rather than being more carefully split radially by axe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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