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diaˈmetrically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In the manner or direction of a diameter; along the diameter; straight through.
1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iii. i. (1723) 137 The Vapour..cannot penetrate the Stratum diametricaly. 1794T. Taylor Pausanias III. 95 Its breadth, measured diametrically, may be conjectured to be about four cubits. 1826Scott Mal. Malagr. i. 53 This true course cannot always be followed out straight and diametrically. 1889Nature 7 Nov. 13 The molecules, which he represents diametrically.
2. In the way of direct or complete opposition. Usually with opposite, opposed, contrary: Directly, exactly, entirely, completely. (Cf. prec. 2.)
a. lit. of physical opposition.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. i. xxvii. 44 Two white keen-pointed rocks, that lie under water diametrically opposed. 1726tr. Gregory's Astron. I. 13 This Planet will not always attend the Sun, but sometimes be diametrically opposite to it. 1870R. M. Ferguson Electr. 32 These points are not diametrically opposite each other.
b. fig. (The usual sense.)
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 10 Vice cannot consist with virtue, because it is diametrically opposite. 1672Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 241 That men of equal learning..integrity and..piety, should differ so diametrically from each other. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 397 It is diametrically contrary to the genius of the British constitution. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 118 That the positions of England and Spain toward the papacy would be diametrically changed. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. i. i. 51 Two kinds of emotion..diametrically antagonistic.
†3. Directly, in an exact line (with); in the way of complete agreement. Obs. rare.
1661Sir H. Vane's Politics 6 My Judgement runs diametrically with his. |