polysyntheticallyadv.
/ˌpɒlɪsɪnˈθɛtᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈˌpɑliˌsɪnˈθɛdək(ə)li/ 1. Linguistics. In a polysynthetic manner. rare.
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polysynthetically1874
endocentrically1964
acronymically1965
1874 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 503/1 North American Indians, or Tatars, can hardly run a sentence into a word more polysynthetically than we can.
1880 Athenæum 9 Oct. 459/2 ‘I strike him with a sword to kill him’ is another thought. Must all this be expressed polysynthetically?
2. Mineralogy. So as to form polysynthetic crystals. Usually with twinned.
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polysynthetically1903
1903 Amer. Geologist 32 67 Within it are small, triclinic, polysynthetically twinned feldspars which are rather vaguely crystallized.
1968 I. Kostov Mineral. 394 The crystals are almost invariably polysynthetically twinned.
2002 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Western Austral. 84 149 The presence of abundant polysynthetically twinned clinopyroxene, and the wollastonite content of orthopyroxene show that the chondrite is petrologic type 4.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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