Definition of Metaphysically

1. Adverb. In a metaphysical manner. "He thinks metaphysically"

Partainyms: Metaphysical

Definition of Metaphysically

1. adv. In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician.

Definition of Metaphysically

1. Adverb. In a metaphysical manner. ¹

2. Adverb. Concerning metaphysics. ¹

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Definition of Metaphysically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metaphysically

metaphrases
metaphrasing
metaphrasis
metaphrast
metaphrastic
metaphrastical
metaphrasts
metaphyseal
metaphyseal dysplasia
metaphysial
metaphysial dysostosis
metaphysial dysplasia
metaphysial fibrous cortical defect
metaphysic
metaphysical
metaphysically (current term)
metaphysician
metaphysicians
metaphysicist
metaphysicists
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metaphysicks
metaphysics
metaphysis
metaphysitis
metaphyta
metaphyte
metaphytes
metaplasia
metaplasias

Literary usage of Metaphysically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Burke, Select Works by Edmund Burke (1881)
"The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"... phrase must be accepted : " We think metaphysically, but we live «nd act physically." IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. Вт EW DALE. ..."

3. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1884)
"Even in the hypothesis that a vacuum is neither metaphysically nor physically impossible; a body could exercise no causal effect on another body, ..."

4. The Wits and Beaux of Society by A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton (1871)
"Making Love metaphysically.—The Old Scottish Supper.—The Men of Mark passing away'—The Band of Young Spirits.— Brougham's Early Tenacity. ..."

5. The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology by Winslow, Lyttleton Forbes (1875)
"I propose to treat the subject metaphysically, and shall briefly consider its nature, symptoms, diathesis, special features, complexity, and causes—social, ..."

6. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1815)
"Divines ordinarily account for the conflagration metaphysically, and will have it take its rise from a miracle, as e fire from heaven. ..."

7. The Progress of the Intellect: As Exemplified in the Religious Development by Robert William Mackay (1850)
"... NOTION OF GOD, metaphysically. " Omnibus in rebus, et maxime in physicis, quid non sit citius quam quid sit dixerim." CICERO, DE NAT. D. i. ..."

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