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partially, adv.|ˈpɑːʃəlɪ|
[f. partial + -ly2.]
I. = F. partialement.
1. a. In a partial or biased manner, with partiality; so as unduly to favour one side, or a particular person; unfairly, unjustly. Now rare.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 24 Preamble, Officers..making panelles parcially for rewardes to theym geven. 1526Tindale 1 Tim. v. 21 Do nothinge parcially [1611 by partialitye]. 1576Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. II. 516 Intending partiallie under cullour of justice to put thame to deith. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 634 Their own transgressions partially they smother. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. iii. 124 Nor are Noble-mens crimes to be more partially censured, then ignoble ones. a1716South Serm. V. xii. 562 We act partially, in gratifying one Sect, who can pretend to no more Favour than what others may as justly claim. 1755Johnson, Partially; with unjust favour or dislike [no quot.].
b. With special favour or affection. Now rare.
1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. vi. (1821) 283 All which for feare of their estates, were partially affected to the English. 1718J. Hughes in J. Duncombe Lett. (1773) I. 193 May you always persist in thinking so partially of me. 1800M. Edgeworth Will iii, One of whom you lately appeared to think so partially.
II. = F. partiellement (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).
2. a. In a partial way or degree, as opposed to totally; to some extent; in part; incompletely, restrictedly; partly.
1460–70Bk. Quintessence 24 Sikirly alle oþere maner of feueris pestilence..may be curid partialy wiþ oure 5. essence. 1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 59 They were hudlid and..bunglid upp in more haste then good speede partially at the urgent and importune request of a honest good⁓naturid and worshipfull yonge gentleman. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 112 Which was but partially true. 1794U. Price Ess. Picturesque 21 Those obstacles themselves, either wholly or partially concealing the former ones. 1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Calend. Prophecy (1844) II. 12 The two feet, branching out into ten toes, are partially of iron, and partially of clay. 1889Swinburne Stud. B. Jonson 11 As to whether The Case is Altered may be wholly or partially or not at all assignable to the hand of Jonson.
b. Comb. (usually with pa. pples.) partially ordered (Math.), having a partial ordering (see partial a. (n.) 3 b (f)).
1813T. Busby Lucretius I. i. Comm. 17 A progressive, partially-potent, and finite being, like man. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 311 Layers of partially-rolled and broken flints. 1895Educat. Rev. Sept. 112 Science is..only partially-unified knowledge. 1941Birkhoff & MacLane Survey Mod. Algebra xi. 326 Partially ordered systems with a finite number of elements can be conveniently represented by diagrams. 1949Partially-sighted [see dark-ground s.v. dark a. 14 c]. 1971Optometry Today (Amer. Optometric Assoc.) 15 Partially-sighted and legally-blind persons must first be located. 1974Hilton & Wu Course in Mod. Algebra 2 Zorn's lemma. Every inductive partially ordered set has a maximal element. |