typicallyadv.
/ˈtɪpᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈtɪpᵻk(ə)li/ In a typical manner.
1. By way of or by means of a type or types; figuratively; symbolically; emblematically.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [adverb]
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1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 455 It typically also setteth the practises of the scribes.
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. x. 506 How could the Priesthood of our Sauiour Christ be typically shaddowed and prefigured by two?
1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 32 The things they typically represented, were come to pass.
1786 A. Maclean Christ's Commission i. 15 The nations of this world are neither typically nor spiritually related to God as His Church and Kingdom.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. (Notes) 441 What is true typically of the legal sacrifices, is true really of Christ's sacrifice.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets iv. 193 We find the fundamental moral law of Nemesis as a part of the Divine government of the world expressed typically..in the Oresteia.
2. So as to constitute a type; in conformity with the type; representatively; characteristically.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [adverb] > as typical representative of a class
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1868 Carpenter in Sci. Opinion 6 Jan. (1869) 174/2 Numerous specimens of the typically triradiate.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 10 The Phoenicians were typically a nation of traders.
1910 C. G. Seligmann Melanesians Brit. New Guinea Introd. 2 The character of its [the nose's] bridge varies, typically the nostrils are broad.
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