mediallyadv.
/ˈmiːdɪəli/, U.S. /ˈmidiəli/ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adverb] > by intermediate agency
mediately?a1425
indirectly1477
intermediously1657
intermediately1755
medially1846
1846 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Oct. 478/1 The neglect to distinguish between what we know immediately and without question, from what we know medially by proof..is the occasion of great confusion in philosophy.
2. In or towards a medial or central position.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [adverb]
centrally?a1425
centricallya1631
medially1856
1856 T. Antisell Geol. Rep. (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific VII) ii. 192 Basal margin slightly contracted medially.
1861 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 472/2 A tract..lying medially between the Atlantic and the Mississippi.
1893 J. Clark Man. Linguistics vii. 181 Wherever, medially, in Italic, an s between two vowels followed an unaccented syllable, the final result gave z.
1913 Cunningham's Text-bk. Anat. (ed. 4) 171 Placed medially between the two parietal bones is the sagittal suture. This is finely denticulated, except in the region of the obelion.
1948 A. Brodal Neurol. Anat. x. 323 With the development of the neopallium or neo-cortex, the two more primitive areas are finally pushed medially.
1976 Language 52 453 It is usually acknowledged that a passive voice developed from medially inflected verbs.
1992 ENT News May 18/1 Acoustic neuromas typically develop laterally in the internal auditory canal and expand medially.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1846