aetiologicallyetiologicallyadv.
/ˌiːtɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌidiəˈlɑdʒək(ə)li/ In an aetiological manner; so as to assign a cause or reason.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > attribution or assignment of cause > [adverb]
imputatively1621
imputedly1646
assignably1674
aetiologically1743
1743 H. Bracken Traveller's Pocket-farrier 12 The greatest Nicety lies in the Knowledge of the Disease, and its Causes. I say, its Causes, so far as we can Ætiologically trace them.
1832 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 17 325 In the great majority of those instances in which hysteria..or convulsions have seemed to spread by sympathy, no local cause has been discovered, which could be etiologically connected with the phenomenon.
1849 W. Fitzgerald tr. W. Whitaker Disputation Holy Script. 403 Scripture is expounded ætiologically, when it is shewn why any thing was done or said.
1905 Daily Chron. 23 Aug. 3/1 It is an effort to show etiologically, with cold-blooded impartiality and freedom from partisanship, how [etc.].
1956 Nature 14 Jan. 90/1 Both a virus and pleuro-pneumonia-like organisms have been etiologically implicated.
1989 Nature 3 Aug. 393/1 We can tentatively consider schizophrenia as aetiologically heterogeneous, although other interpretations are possible.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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