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negatively, adv.|ˈnɛgətɪvlɪ|
[f. negative a. + -ly2.]
In a negative manner.
1. By way of negation or denial; in the negative; on the negative side.
c1559R. Hall Life Fisher in F.'s Wks. (E.E.T.S.) II. p. lxiii, Being againe negatively answered by the counsell of the queenes side, all seemed to rest vpon proof. 1570Billingsley Euclid i. vii. 17 The mathematicall artes..for the most part vse to conclude affirmatiuely, and not negatiuely. 1620Venner Via Recta iii. 46 Now to the question. I answer negatiuely. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xvii. 195 We will describe Contentment first negatively. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland vi. 15 Negatively we may pass sentence and conclude they were not Swedes. 1749Fielding Tom Jones Ded., Negatively, at least, I may be allowed to say [etc.]. 1794Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XV. 420 He has told you here indeed negatively, that he did not know [etc.]. 1812Ld. Ellenborough in Examiner 28 Dec. 832/2 The annuity did not appear, negatively, in the Prince's household accounts. 1845Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. I. 169/1 It is..negatively asserted that virtue cannot be hurt. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. iv. 84, I can confirm this statement negatively, for I have seen no trace of personal servitude in the numerous accounts.
b. In a manner indicating refusal.
1804E. de Acton Tale without Title II. 166 Telling her she looked so negatively at that period, that he would not then attend to her decision.
†2. With incapacity of being the opposite. Obs.
1622R. Harris God's Goodness 17 Preserving or conserving Mercy in the first sense is Negatiuely endlesse, that is, vncapable of end. 1670R. Coke Disc. Trade Ded., A man negatively blind, cannot be made to perceive things which are only visible.
3. With negative electricity.
1747Franklin Wks. (1840) V. 186 Hence have arisen some new terms among us; we say B is electrized positively; A, negatively. 1787Cavallo in Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 14 This plate A being now electrified negatively. 1833Penny Cycl. I. 412/1 When mercury is negatively electrified in a solution of ammonia. 1849Noad Electricity (ed. 3) 133 The phial..would..be charged negatively. 1881Maxwell Electr. & Magn. I. 48 A negatively electrified particle.
4. In a negative manner or direction.
1789Waring in Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 175 The preceding co-efficients..are to be taken negatively or affirmatively, as s is an even or an odd number. 1832Macgillivray Trav. & Res. Humboldt ii. 37 The visibility of mountains which are only negatively perceived. 1862Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iii. 95 The opium-taker is only negatively mischievous to society. 1876Preece & Sivewright Telegr. 41 The n poles will all be ‘negatively rotated’, or moved to the right. |