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ideally, adv.|aɪˈdiːəlɪ|
[f. ideal a. + -ly2.]
In an ideal manner.
†1. In ‘idea’ (sense 1) or archetype; in relation to a pattern or type. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. ix. 124 A transmission is made materially from some parts, and Ideally from every one. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 582 The third..doth actively display and produce into being what was..contained..ideally or exemplarily in the second. 1701Norris Ideal World i. ii. 36 As these figures..must first be conceived that they might be made, so they must be that they might be conceived, and consequently must exist ideally in order to their existing naturally.
2. In idea, mental conception, or imagination; imaginarily.
1598Florio, Ideale, ideally, figuratiuely, formely, imaginatiuely [1611 ideally or figuratiuely, by imagination]. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. 339 Reason and religion differ only as a twofold application of the same power. But if we are obliged to distinguish, we must ideally separate. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxvi. 374 The branches..have..been ideally prolonged across the moraines. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. lviii, It seemed now that her marriage was visibly as well as ideally floating her above the Middlemarch level. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ix. §3 (1879) 410 The unexpected conclusion..that more than three dimensions in space are ideally possible.
3. In conformity with the ideal; in the highest conceivable perfection; in the way of supreme excellence.
1840Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life (1879) II. iv. 243 Our ideally delightful journey. 1875Hamerton Intell. Life ii. iii. 66 An ideally perfect history would tell the pure truth. 1885Manchester Exam. 4 May 5/2 This fluid is..by no means an ideally pure water.
4. Biol. In relation to a general plan or archetype (of a class).
1859Darwin Orig. Spec. vi. 191 The swim-bladder is homologous, or ‘ideally similar’, in position and structure with the lungs of the higher..animals. 1896Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 108 To designate this theoretically, or ideally, fundamental form. |