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enigmatically, adv.
(iːnɪgˈmætɪkəlɪ, now usu. ɛn-)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an enigmatical manner; after the manner of, or by means of, an enigma; ambiguously, obscurely.
1590Greene Never too late (1600) 106 For young men 'tis too soone, for olde men too late to marry; concluding so enigmatically, it were not good to marry at all. 1641French Distill. i. (1651) 15 Philosophers when they wrote any thing too excellent for the vulgar to know, expressed it enigmatically. 1744Berkeley Siris §365 He writes..enigmatically and briefly in the following terms. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii. (1871) 82 So ends abruptly as is usual and enigmatically this little incipient romance. |