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functionally, adv.|ˈfʌŋkʃənəlɪ| [f. functional a. + -ly2.] In a functional manner; with respect to the functions; in the discharge of the functions.
1820W. Lawrence Lect. ii. 163 The organ is said to be functionally disordered. 1846Owen Brit. Fossil Mamm. 433 The horned Ruminants, for example, manifest transitorily in the embryo-state the germs of upper incisors and canines, which disappear before birth, but which were retained and functionally developed in the cloven-footed Anoplothere. 1854Woodward Mollusca (1856) 256 Its muscle becomes (functionally) an adductor. 1879H. Spencer Data of Ethics xi. 188 Functionally produced modifications. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 919 The male organs of species-hybrids are functionally weak to a higher degree than the female organs. 1927E. A. Sonnenschein Soul of Grammar 3 Two cases might differ functionally without differing morphologically. 1934H. Read Art & Industry 11 C. 91/1 For sitting upright, actually the stool or the bench is all that is functionally necessary. 1951E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. ii. 22 [Montesquieu] had the idea of everything in a society and its ambient being functionally related to everything else. 1971Nature 30 Apr. 578/3 The indications are clear that the ancestral middle Miocene hominoids were structurally and functionally advanced in this locomotor style. |