dependentlyadv.
/dɪˈpɛndəntli/ In a dependent manner; in a way depending on something.
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society > authority > subjection > [adverb] > dependently
pendently1603
dependently1646
suspensively1872
the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [adverb] > contingently or dependently
dependently1646
contingently1655
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxv. 178 These..act but dependantly on their formes. View more context for this quotation
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iii. 73 Whether there be an utter impossibility of any material Being to be either independently or dependently eternal.
1790 J. Beattie Elem. Moral Sci. I. i. iii. 55 If we affirm..relatively, conditionally, or dependently on something else, it is the Subjunctive.
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adv.1646- be of the opinion
- be of the opinion that
- be of the world
- be of two in (also of several minds, etc)
- be of two in twenty minds several minds, etc)
- be of two minds several minds, etc)
- be off
- be off again
- be off and running
- be off at the nail
- be off in the ozone
- be off like a bride's nightie
- be off like a redshank
- be off on one
- be off one's bargain
- be off one's feed
- be off one's game
- be off one's legs
- be off one's mark
- be off one's nana
- be off sick
- be off the beam
- be off the mark
- be off the watch
- be off to a —— start