† specificativelyadv.
Obsolete.
Specifically.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adverb]
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c1600 Timon (1980) iv. iii. 60 The Moone may bee taken 4 manner of waies either specificatiuely, or Quidditatiuely, or Superficially or Catapodially.
1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 134 In thy seed (declaring specificatively in whose) shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. iii. ii. 31 As here..cannot be taken Reduplicatively, but only Specificatively, as it specifies one and the same Act.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 164 Which phrase must be taken specificatively, not objectively.
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