reactivelyadv.
/rɪˈaktᵻvli/, U.S. /riˈæktᵻvli/ In a reactive manner; with, as, or by (a) reaction.
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the world > action or operation > [adverb] > operating in return
reactively1805
reactionally1856
1805 J. Foster Ess. i. ii. 30 The living world..is re-actively throwing on him various moral influences and infections.
1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica v. 285 A very irritable temper, that bore him reactively into close relationship with a few.
1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 42/3 The Franco years, during which he transfixed Spain, ruling not actively but reactively, placing an inexhaustible number of thumbs in the crumbling dike.
2003 Isis 94 501/1 How historians should weight and evaluate evidence, ever-prepared reactively to reconsider former positions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1805- to take up one's station
- to take up parable
- to take up residence
- to take up roost
- to take up savings
- to take up short
- to take up station
- to take up the ball
- to take up the bucklers
- to take up the cudgels
- to take up the gauntlet
- to take up the hatchet
- to take up the running
- to take up the slack
- to take up the table
- to take up the thread
- to take up the thread of
- to take up the threads
- to take up the threads of
- to take up the tomahawk
- to take up the word
- to take up upon trust
- to take up with
- to take upon advantages
- to take upon content