restrictivelyadv.
/rᵻˈstrɪktᵻvli/, U.S. /rəˈstrɪktᵻvli/, /riˈstrɪktᵻvli/ In a restrictive manner; with limitations.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adverb] > in a restrictive way
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1606 T. Palmer Ess. Meanes to make Trauailes more Profitable ii. 112 Many of the other three markes are committed, but yet restrictiuely, and vnder controulement.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 135 Take the term [sc. martyr] in a large acception, otherwise restrictively it signifies such an one, as suffers for the Testimony of the Truth.
a1676 M. Hale Wks. (1805) I. 398 This subject may be considered two ways. 1. Absolutely,..2. Relatively, or restrictively.
1742 J. Warne Downfal of Arminianism 100 The Gospel in which God offers Grace to Men..is always preached distributively, restrictively, and conditionally.
1799 F. Hargrave Three Arguments Two Causes in Chancery ii. 29 In favor of the assertion so restrictively understood, our Year-books furnish some little evidence.
1840 Times 30 Oct. 3/5 All their other acts ought to..either act restrictively, or assist in placing the Bank in a more commanding position.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 264 The charter should be construed restrictively.
1918 A. W. Slaten Qualitative Nouns in Pauline Epist. iii. 67 The writer uses the expression restrictively.
1978 Sci. Amer. Apr. 51/1 A second diagram..starts with a U.S. decision to act restrictively and includes several additional logic paths.
2005 M. Peters Case for Charismatics vi. 75 To guard against confusion, certain words are used restrictively in systematic theology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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