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1. absolutely, adv. and int. View full entry ?a1425
...To the fullest extent; in the highest degree; entirely, wholly, utterly. In later use freq. as simple intensifier....
2. academically, adv. View full entry ?1608
...In Philos.: by or in the manner of Academic philosophers; Platonically; sceptically. Also: theoretically, without regard for practicality; disinterestedly....
3. accidental, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1387-8
...Not essential to the existence of a thing; not necessarily present, incidental, secondary, subsidiary....
4. adequately, adv. View full entry 1628
...Philos. With perfect or exact correspondence of idea to object. Cf. adequation2. Obs....
5. ad hominem, adv. and adj. View full entry 1588
...By attempting to disprove an argument or proposition by attacking the beliefs or character of the person proposing it (cf. argumentum ad hominemargument3c). Subsequently also in extended use:...
6. ad placitum, adv. View full entry a1556
...By arbitrary application of a word or sign to a particular meaning, without a natural or logical basis. More generally: arbitrarily, as one pleases; (also) by convention or general agreement....
7. agnostically, adv. View full entry 1878
...In an agnostic manner as regards religion or philosophy; so as to tend towards religious or philosophical agnosticism....
8. apaˈgogically, adv. View full entry 1877
...In apagogical manner; by means of an apagoge....
9. a priori, adv. (and adj.) View full entry 1710
...A phrase used to characterize reasoning or arguing from causes to effects, from abstract notions to their conditions or consequences, from propositions or assumed axioms (and not from experience); deductive; deductively....
10. ˌarchitecˈtonically, adv. View full entry 1850
...In relation to architectonics; with architectural fitness....
11. ˈargal, adv. View full entry 1604
...Perversion of Latin ergo ‘therefore’; hence subst. a clumsy piece of reasoning....
12. atomically, adv. View full entry 1659
...Chiefly Hist. Sci. In the form of atoms, by means of atoms; (also) in accordance with the principles of atomic theory....
13. ˌaxioˈmatically, adv. View full entry 1588
...In axiomatic manner:...
14. common, adj. and adv. View full entry 1297
...‘Belonging equally to more than one’ (Johnson); possessed or shared alike by both or all (the persons or things in question). to have (anything) common with: now, to have ...
15. comprehensively, adv. View full entry a1631
...In a comprehensive manner....
16. † coˈnnexively, adv. View full entry 1635
...In a connexive manner:...
17. connotatively, adv. View full entry 1864
...In a connotative manner....
18. contradictorily, adv. View full entry 1605
...In a way that contradicts or involves contradiction; in contradictory terms....
19. contrary, adj., n., adv., and prep. View full entry c1250
...Opposed in nature or tendency; diametrically different, extremely unlike. Const. to; often with sense: Repugnant, antagonistic....
20. cosmologically, adv. View full entry 1865
...In a way that relates to cosmology....
