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individually, adv.|ɪndɪˈvɪdjuːəlɪ|
[f. individual + -ly2.]
In an individual manner.
†1. Indivisibly; inseparably, undividedly. Obs.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lvi. §2 How should that subsist solitarily by it selfe which hath no substance, but indiuidually the very same whereby others subsist with it? 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 3 The persons which all have that one being, and every of which have all that being, which in itselfe is individually one. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 283 An attribute..individually proper to the Godhead, and incommunicable to any created substance.
2. In individual identity; as one and the same person or thing. individually the same, identically the same, the self-same. ? Obs.
1624Gataker Transubst. 48 One thing is said to be another, which cannot be individually or specifically the same. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. Wks. 1839 I. 137 Whensoever the name, by which it is asked whether a thing be the same it was, is given it for the matter only, then, if the matter be the same, the thing also is individually the same; as the water, which was in the sea, is the same which is afterwards in the cloud. 1748H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) II. 219, I have received the Eagle's head; the lid is broken off individually in the same spot with the original.
b. individually different: different as individuals (though they may be identical in species).
1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 257 The definite article is likewise used to distinguish between things, which are individually different, but have one generic name. 1864Bowen Logic iv. 92 Two things may be said to be..individually or numerically different, when they do not constitute one and the same reality.
3. Personally; as a single person distinct from others; in an individual capacity.
1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 54 There are many things so inherent in the Prince individually, that they are incommunicable to any other. 1781W. Blane Ess. Hunting Pref. (1788) 8 note, Impossible for him, who is not individually free and independent, to be politically so. 1840Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. vii. 108 To me individually it would be a great release to be quit of the trouble and expense of the garden.
4. In an individual or distinctive manner; as single persons or things, singly; each by each, one by one: opposed to collectively.
1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. xiii. 129 To whom as to individuall persons such care and offices were individually intrusted. 1659Gentl. Calling (1696) 9 Not only to those Exercises which belong indifferently to their whole species, but to those also for which they are individually qualified. 1776Adam Smith W.N. v. i. i. (1869) I. 282 That army was superior, in which the soldiers had, each individually, the greatest skill and dexterity. 1830Marryat King's Own i, Whether we act in a body or individually. 1859Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 300 Moss plants too minute to be seen individually, but making the whole tree green. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 122 The sacrifice which they collectively made was individually repaid to them. 1896C. L. Morgan Habit & Inst. 346 There is little or no evidence of individually acquired habits in man becoming instinctive through heredity. |