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1655 A. Symson Wilson's Compl. Christian Dict. (rev. ed.) at Image It's taken, 1. Essentially, as Christ is the Image of his Father..2. Accidentally, respecting qualities spirituall and heavenly..3. Existentially, for the substance of the things whereof they be Images.

1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World vi. 117 It is an Essence or Entity in itself whether it doth also Exist, or not Exist: which Essence, or Entity, while it doth not Actualy Exist, doth alway Subsist in some others; and therefore alway is Essentialy, though not Existentialy.

1810 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 3814 The Trinity was contained in the very definition..first, essentially,..and hypostatically or existentially.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 82 Whether God was existentially as well as essentially intelligent.

1895 W. James in Psychol. Rev. 2 124 The various [mental] ‘contents’..are integers, existentially, and their parts only live as long as they live.

1938 M. R. Adamson tr. J. A. H. Maritain True Humanism i. 13 A perfect natural wisdom, of which man considered existentially was supposed to be in fact capable.

1941 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 1 349 According to the fundamental principle of the philosophy of existence..even the fundamental analysis is in the last analysis ‘existentially rooted’.

1947 Philosophy 22 254 Kierkegaard..is speaking existentially and in concreto, describing an actual psychological state of every man.

1948 E. Waugh Loved One 7 Sir Ambrose..lived existentially. He thought of himself as he was at that moment, brooded fondly on each several excellence and rejoiced.

1952 Philos. Q. 2 45 Sartre has a more direct profession of atheism in his argument that the notion of ‘God’ is existentially impossible.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Mar. p. x/5 Interpreting myth ‘existentially’, which is what the New Testament is trying to do.

1991 L. Faderman Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers viii.189 Women who called themselves ‘lesbian-feminists’ and who usually believed they ‘existentially’ chose to be lesbians.

2006 V. Smil Transforming 20th Cent. i. 5 Low-income countries came to be..even more existentially dependent on technical advances.