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1848 tr. F. Schiller in Monthly Retrospect Med. Sci. Feb. 47/1 A physician whose horizon is bounded by an historical knowledge of the human machine, and who can only distinguish terminologically [Ger. terminologisch] and locally, the coarser wheels of this piece of intellectual clockwork, may perhaps be idolized by the mob.

1906 J. P. Trevelyan tr. W. Bousset Jesus iii. x. 185 The most ordinary word can, when used terminologically, acquire a special meaning which does not belong to it intrinsically.

1963 Times 19 Feb. 6 The name has proved a useful label though terminologically inaccurate.

2003 Guardian (Nexis) 3 June They prefer to speak English, as it is often more terminologically exact.