Instrumently

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    By means of an instrument; instrumentally. archaic, nonstandard, rare

    "... for whereas Aristotle himself presupposeth his Auscultator or Scholar in Physicks to have been already trained up in the Mathematical Sciences (which are indeed instrumently subordinate to natural Philosophy as introductive thereunto) [...]"

Example

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"... for whereas Aristotle himself presupposeth his Auscultator or Scholar in Physicks to have been already trained up in the Mathematical Sciences (which are indeed instrumently subordinate to natural Philosophy as introductive thereunto) [...]"

Etymology

From instrument + -ly.

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