explicitlyadv.

1605 R. Smith Answer to T. Bels Challeng vii. i. 285 Likewise Stapleton affirmeth, that the Apostles wrote al, or almost al that parte of faith, which is necessary to be explicitely beleeued of al and euery one.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) iv. lxxvii. 863 That the Roman Church..erreth not in..Fundamentalibus Fidei Articulis, because explicitely they profess them, howsoever..implicitely and by consequent they subvert them.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. xiv. §8. 217 Every civill Law hath a penalty annexed to it, either explicitly or implicitly.

1755 J. Wesley Let. 25 July (1931) III. 137 Though we have few points of doctrine explicitly taught in the small remains of the ante-Nicene Fathers, yet I think none that carefully reads Clemens Romanus..can doubt..all whom he mentions as real Christians.

1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 62 He explicitly limits his ideas of resistance.

1834 Metrop. Mag. Jan. 3 A few more such volumes, and we shall hold Hall to be orthodox, and believe explicitly in Trollope.

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xvi. 437 Faith believes the whole revelation of God explicitly so far as it knows it; implicitly so far as it is not known as yet.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 323 Passages of various dates speak explicitly of the use of the compass for land purposes.

1912 Catechist's Man. (Inst. Brothers Christian Schools) (ed. 3) i. iv. 47 When children come to the age of reason they are obliged to know and believe explicitly a certain number of truths.

1989 T. Zahavy tr. Talmud of Land of Israel: Berakhot ii. 62 One may not interrupt [between the paragraphs of the Shemaʿ] even though it is not taught explicitly in our Mishnah.

2012 N. Tanner New Short Hist. Catholic Church iii. 85 To believe explicitly that God exists and rewards the good, and implicitly the articles of the faith.

a1657 T. Blake Vindiciæ Foederis (1658) xi. 68 Was not the Law of worship perfect, to Abraham, unlesse it explicitely told him that he must sacrifice his Sonne?

1718 Vulgar Prepossessions in Favour of Bishop of Bangor 28 To shew that his Lordship could not, explicitly and deliberately, intend his (seemingly) Hard Sayings, against the Honesty of his Misrepresenters; or against their Understanding Either.

1765 R. Lowth Let. to Warburton 129 I thought it incumbent upon me to tell you explicitly..that I was not to be frightened.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. iii. 107 Speak explicitly, and to the point.

1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 1 We..avow most explicitly that [etc.].

1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 810 And here let me say very explicitly that the matter is not one to be disposed of, for or against, by mere opinion.

1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind (1919) 7 In his glorious elegy on Keats he implicitly assumes the personal immortality which the poem explicitly denies.

1947 P. Larkin Girl in Winter (1956) ii. i. 80 Instead, Mr. Fennel talked slowly and explicitly about ordinary things so that Katherine could understand and answer what he said.

1978 A. M. Schlesinger Robert Kennedy & His Times 200 Nor, Kennedy said most explicitly, did the committee ever wiretap.

2008 Backpacker Sept. 66/2 The Wilderness Act was explicitly created to preserve remoteness and all that comes with it: silence, solitude, a functioning ecosystem.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) Introd. 33 The Universal Redemption of all mankinde by the death of Christ, hath been so clearly and explicitely delivered by the Church of England, that nothing can be more plain.

1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence ii. 86 But when we come to examine more explicitly what that [sc. Habit of Prudence] is, we shall find that it is of thinking rightly when he Acts.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. ii. 36 This Part of the Office of Conscience is beyond my present Design explicitely to consider.

1834 Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 481 In order to state the several points of the question fully and explicitly, it may be proper to repeat the words of the querist.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 195 Will you tell me a little more explicitly what [etc.]?

1932 Illustr. London News 20 Aug. 266/1 The antithesis thus suggested is not explicitly elaborated.

2010 D. C. Witherington et al. in G. Bremner & T. D. Wachs Wiley–Blackwell Handbk. Infant Devel. (ed. 2) I. xix. 568 As detailed more explicitly in Witherington et al. (2001), the functionalist approach to emotion argues that emotions reach out to the social and physical world.

1908 F. Simmonds & G. W. Chrystal tr. J. Meier-Graefe Mod. Art II. 252 At Beardsley's house one used to see the finest and most explicitly erotic Japanese prints in London.

1969 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 9 July 17/3 It ‘shows..acts of sexual intercourse in many different postures, including perverted sex acts, as frankly and explicitly as hard-core stag smoker films that are sold and exhibited illicitly’.

1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 May 8/4 Explicitly sexual material now will be hidden in plastic wrapping and placed on shelves at least six feet high, beyond young children's reach.

2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Weekend section) 1 Edo-era Japanese woodblock prints, known as shunga, explicitly depicted sex in a way that titillates even today.