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definitively, adv.|dɪˈfɪnɪtɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a definitive manner.
1. So as to decide or settle the matter; decisively, conclusively, finally, definitely.
1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §2 All causes testamentarie..shall be..finallye and diffinitiuely adiudged and determined within the Kynges iurisdiction. 1639R. Gentilis Servita's Inquis. xxxvi. (1676) 833 Contumacious Persons shall be banished, either definitively, or for a time. 1659Milton Civ. Power Wks. (1847) 415/1 No man, no synod, no session..can judge definitively the sense of Scripture to another man's conscience. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. iii. xlii. 198, I desired he would tell me definitively what number of men he would give me for a guard. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 132 Henry..definitively breaking the Spanish alliance, formed a league with Francis I. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 55 To settle definitively that much-vexed question.
†2. Metaph. So as to have a definite position, but not take up space: see prec. 3. Obs.
1529More Dyaloge ii. Wks. 188/1 Though thei be not cyrcumscribed in place..yet are thei and angels also diffinitively so placed where thei be for the time. 1624N. De Lawne tr. Du Moulin's Logick 27 The Philosophers..say that Bodies are in a place circumscriptively, and Soules definitively; because Soules are not limited or circumscribed by place, and yet a man may say..that they are here, or there, and not els-where. 1711tr. Werenfels' Disc. Logom. 96. |