Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In the manner or with the force or character of an adverb; as an adverb.
Wiktionary
- adv. As, or in the manner of, an adverb.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In the manner of an adverb.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. as an adverb
Etymologies
- adverbial + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Given this account of the intentionality of perception, sensations are best understood adverbially, that is, as a way of perceiving objects in the world.”
“And because good has taken on this colloquial resonance when used adverbially, it has made some people sensitive about its use.”
“All I can do is describe how Guinness affects me neurologically, intellectually, spiritually, sexually, violently, adverbially — every year a new edition comes out.”
“In sensibility the qualities of perceived things turn into time and into consciousness ¦ [But,] do not the sensations in which the sensible qualities are lived resound adverbially ¦ as adverbs of the verb to be?”
“The key word was sorry, later adverbially emphasized as very sorry.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Not: He was absent due to illness, which uses due to adverbially.”
Simon & Schuster: Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
“Wherefore the word X+S+D+, following may be taken adverbially, as a lenitive of that severity which this word importeth: "Let him smite me;" but”
“+Case+ defined of attribute complement of explanatory modifier of noun or pronoun independent of noun or pronoun used adverbially of objective complement”
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
“In the sentence above, _I scent the morning air_ is the subject, _thinks_ is the predicate, and _me_ is a "dative," or a pronoun used adverbially.”
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
“A noun or pronoun used as object complement, as objective complement, as the principal word in a prepositional phrase, or used adverbially”
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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