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pyramidally, adv.|pɪˈræmɪdəlɪ|
[f. pyramidal + -ly2.]
In a pyramidal manner; in the form of a pyramid.
1561Eden Arte of Nauig. ii. viii. 34 The shadowe of the..earth is piramidallye sharpe. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 50 Vpon a base a too foot square, & hy,..a square pilaster rizing pyramidally of a fyfteen foote hy. 1671Grew Anat. Plants ii. §9 They stand both together pyramidally. 1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 84 Rising pyramidally..at least five hundred and forty feet above the sea. 1890Farmer's Gaz. 4 Jan. 7/1 The shoots of a pyramidally trained tree.
†b. fig. in allusion to the embalmed bodies of the dead preserved in the pyramids: After the manner of a mummy. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xiii. 366 A man may be happy without the apprehension thereof: surely in that sence he is pyramidally happy. 1658― Hydriot. v. 72 But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.
c. fig. Hugely, colossally: cf. pyramidal 2 b.
1891Sat. Rev. 28 Feb. 275/1 So pyramidally ignorant is the British newspaper-man. |