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typically, adv.|ˈtɪpɪkəlɪ| [f. typical + -ly2.] In a typical manner. 1. By way of or by means of a type or types; figuratively; symbolically; emblematically.
1605Willet Hexapla Gen. 455 It typically also setteth the practises of the scribes. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. x. 506 How could the Priesthood of our Sauiour Christ be typically shaddowed and prefigured by two? 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ix. 334 The things they typically represented were come to pass. 1786A. Maclean Christ's Commission i. 15 The nations of this world are neither typically nor spiritually related to God as His Church and Kingdom. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. Notes (1852) 335 What is true typically of the legal sacrifices, is true really of Christ's sacrifice. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets iv. 193 We find the fundamental moral law of Nemesis as a part of the Divine government of the world expressed typically..in the Oresteia. 2. So as to constitute a type; in conformity with the type; representatively; characteristically.
1868Carpenter in Sci. Opinion 6 Jan. (1869) 174/2 Numerous specimens of the typically triradiate. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 10 The Phoenicians were typically a nation of traders. 1910Seligmann Melanesians Brit. N. Guinea Introd. 2 The character of its [the nose's] bridge varies, typically the nostrils are broad. |