Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a chemical manner; according to chemical principles; in a chemical sense; by a chemical process or operation: as, a chemically active substance; a surface chemically clean.
  • By alchemy or alchemical means or processes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Using a chemical reaction, process, or operation.
  • adverb According to the principles of chemistry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with respect to chemistry
  • adverb with chemicals

Etymologies

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chemical +‎ -ly

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