individuallyadv.

1554 J. Gwynneth Declar. State wherin Heretikes leade Liues xxii. f. 20^v This worde Christ, doth not properly singnifie, his onely humanite, nor yet his onely diuinitee seuerally or perticularly. But it signifieth indiuidually and indistinctly one proper and singular person made of them both.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lvi. 121 How should that subsist solitarilie by it selfe which hath no substance but indiuiduallie the very same whereby others subsist with it?

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. i. 3 The persons which al haue that one being, and euery of which haue all that being, which in it selfe is indiuidually one.

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. x. 265 An attribute..individually proper to the Godhead, & incommunicable to any created substance.

1720 R. Fiddes Theologia Speculativa II. iv. v. 322 The same numerical body is in several places at once,..consisting of more and fewer parts, separated and yet individually united.

1604 J. Marston Malcontent ii. iv. sig. D^v Euen here it is, three curds in three regions indiuiduallie distinct.

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xi. 100 Whensoever the Name by which it is asked whether a thing be the same it was, is given it for the Matter onely, then if the Matter be the same, the thing also is Individually the same; as the Water which was in the Sea, is the same which is afterwards in the Cloud.

1748 H. Walpole Let. 12 Jan. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 238 I have received the eagle's head; the bill is broken off individually in the same spot with the original.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 113 The perceptions..altho' exactly similar are individually distinct.

1777 J. Aikin Ess. on Applic. Nat. Hist. to Poetry 55 In this sprightly piece, a variety of gay and pleasing objects, similar in kind, yet individually different from those of the Allegro, are introduced in rapid succession.

1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iii. 238 The definite article is likewise used to distinguish between things, which are individually different, but have one generic name.

1848 Brownson's Q. Rev. July 366 Superangelic bread, not only specifically, but individually, identical with that which during eighteen centuries has been broken and distributed among Catholics.

1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic iii. 42 We shall be assuming, in order to account for the difference between determinate materials that are the same in kind, other determinate materials the same in kind but individually different.

1953 F. C. Copleston Hist. Philos. III. i. iv. 50 Though he [sc. Duns Scotus] spoke of a ‘common nature’ he did not mean that the actual nature of X is individually the same as the actual nature of Y.

2000 J. F. Wippel Metaphysical Thought Thomas Aquinas vii. 197 Individually different entities may share in essentially or specifically the same kind of being.

1612 G. Browne tr. P. de la Martelière Argument against Jesuits Demandants 40 Iesus Christ..sending forth his Disciples and Apostles gaue vnto them all equally and indiuidually [Fr. par indiuis] the power of the keies.

1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 9 Not onely to those exercises which belong indifferently to their whole species, but to those also for which they are individually qualified.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 301 That army was superior in which the soldiers had, each individually, the greatest skill and dexterity. View more context for this quotation

1788 C. Smith Emmeline II. iii. 58 If she had occasion to speak of them individually, it was generally under the appellation of ‘Mr. or Mrs. I forget the name’.

1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. i. 3 Whether we act in a body or individually.

1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 122 The sacrifice which they collectively made was individually repaid to them.

1929 Pop. Mech. Feb. 65/3 (advt.) Each propeller individually designed to meet the particular conditions required.

1948 Sci. News 8 106 Group psychotherapy..implies that a group of patients is treated together rather than individually.

2004 L. D. English Math. & Analogical Reasoning Young Learners x. 211 Teachers require..opportunities to explore young children's mathematical and analogical reasoning processes. Time to observe children, both collectively and individually, is essential.

1614 T. Wilson Comm. Epist. S. Paul to Romanes ix. 669 By Israel in the second place, is meant Iacob indiuidually, who was called Israel for his wrestling with God.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 54 in Justice Vindicated There are many things so inherent in the Prince individually, that they are incommunicable to any other.

1781 W. Blane Ess. on Hunting Pref. p. viii Impossible for him, who is not individually free and independent, to be politically so.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon I. iii. 77 But it is with other feelings that I reflect upon the concern I have myself individually in the subject.

1840 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. vii. 108 To me individually it would be a great release to be quit of the trouble and expense of the garden.

1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxvi. 244 I leave the question undecided in its wide sense. Where it concerned me individually I can only answer: then, and always, he showed himself a true-hearted gentleman.

1906 T. R. Lounsbury Text of Shakespeare xxv. 562 To assign to each commentator full credit for the emendations for which he was individually responsible.

1965 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 51 779/1 The doctor, as trustee, leased the building and equipment back to himself individually.

2001 A. W. Sneath Brewed in Canada v. 96 All were changing from small, individually-owned companies to larger, publicly-held corporations.