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Definition of Extensively
1. Adverb. In a widespread way. "Oxidation ponds are extensively used for sewage treatment in the Midwest"
Definition of Extensively
1. adv. To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
Definition of Extensively
1. Adverb. In an extensive manner, widely. ¹
2. Adverb. To a great extent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Extensively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extensively
Literary usage of Extensively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Terry White, James T. White & Company (1898)
"While in South America he traveled extensively in the mountain districts, ...
He traveled extensively in Asia Minor and Egypt, as well as Europe, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... made a collection of prescriptions which was extensively used. In the time of
Emperor Andronicus III (1328^2) lived a highly gifted physician, ..."
3. The Lancet (1898)
"... cases the walls of the rectum may be extensively ulcerated and under such
circumstances the internal orifice of ..."
4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888)
"... who had long been admired as a preacher at Edinburgh, thought now of diffusing
his excellent sermons more extensively, and encreasing his reputation, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Detail is certainly overdone here, but the building is strikingly original; a
point not to be ovcr- which has been extensively imitated; a refined variety ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... is now more extensively used than at any former period Erard invented in 1808
an upward bearing to the wrest-plank bridge, by means of agraffes or studs ..."
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