zeteticallyadv.
/zᵻˈtɛtᵻkli/, U.S. /zəˈtɛdək(ə)li/ By way of inquiry or investigation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > [adverb]
disquisitively1622
zetetically1665
examiningly1685
exploringly1826
exploratively1837
investigatingly1853
questingly1873
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia ix. 55 It would be somewhat too long..Zetetically to examine..what particular kind of motion it is.
1872 Zetetic July 8/2 (advt.) The life and teachings of Jesus Christ zetetically considered.
1960 Amer. Catholic Sociol. Rev. 21 287 All seven articles..stake out (not too zetetically, I hope) ‘common ground’ areas of research between two or more fields of inquiry.
2016 D. Bronstein Aristotle on Knowl. & Learning vi. 85 A successful search for whether S exists results in our learning zetetically that S exists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1665