ontologicallyadv.

?1790 J. Stonhouse Apostolical Conceptions of God: 2nd Pt. App. 11 What the sacred personalities are in correlation to the Holy Father, or in correlation to the primordial Son of God, as ontologically or metaphysically contemplated, we neither know nor can apprehend by our human ideas.

1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason i. 461 The proof..is not deduced wholly à priori, or ontologically.

1849 H. Alford Greek Test. I. 620/2 The first clause being spoken æconomically,..the second ontologically, of the essential nature of the Spirit Himself.

1890 Mind 15 113 Ontologically, elementary acts of will are..the ultimate constituents of the world.

1928 Philos. Rev. 37 357 The pragmatist's anticipated social order and the realist's analytical subsistential level are, for their respective proponents, logically prior and ontologically real.

1987 Dictionaries 9 77 This approach posits the character of language as prior to itself ontologically.

2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck iii. 101 Where Muggleton sees the devil as self creating, Klossowski..sees the devil as ontologically insufficient.