referentiallyadv.

1794 Lit. & Crit. Remarks 68 Our author, contrarily to most writers, when he referentially says the one and the other, by the one, rightly perhaps, means the former article alluded to; and by the other, the latter.

1844 Times 23 Aug. 5/4 The answers are arranged under heads referentially to the questions in the Commissioners' queries.

1848 H. T. Ryde in tr. A. de Lamartine Hist. of Girondists III. p. xii The character of Mirabeau, which he has but lightly and referentially sketched in the first volume of L'Histoire des Girondins.

a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) iv. 188 On the first day, we are told generally, ‘God divided the light, or day, and the darkness, or night’; but the physical agents which he employed for that division are not there declared. On the fourth day, we are told referentially, ‘God commanded the lights (or luminaries) for dividing day and night, to give their light upon earth’.

1922 W. E. Johnson Logic II. 120 Those so-called constants which are dependent upon context are only referentially constant.

1963 J. Lyons Struct. Semantics iii. 39 Each of the [colour-] terms is referentially, or denotationally, vague in the sense that it denotes an area of the spectrum whose boundaries are not fixed precisely.

1980 Mind 89 599 No doubt the students took it in the attributive way... They do not even realize that the teacher intends his description referentially.

2005 P. W. Culicover & R. Jackendoff Simpler Syntax iii. xi. 390 This shows that someone else is a referentially dependent expression, and that it is possible to pick out a specific antecedent for it in the sentence.