Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • As regards an embryo; as or for an embryo; in an embryonic or rudimentary manner.

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  • adverb In an embryonic way.

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Examples

  • While he'd been a knob-turning radio music freak and record collector as a kid, his professional journey embryonically began at WXPN why he was at this convention in the first place.

    Binky Philips: WXPN and World Cafe Make Wilmington Delaware the Center of Cool for 48 Hours Binky Philips 2011

  • While he'd been a knob-turning radio music freak and record collector as a kid, his professional journey embryonically began at WXPN why he was at this convention in the first place.

    Binky Philips: WXPN and World Cafe Make Wilmington Delaware the Center of Cool for 48 Hours Binky Philips 2011

  • But as long as the world does not understand which wounds it has inflicted on itself, it will not be able to advance to the optimistic, happiness-seeking and in the end even loving self that slumbers embryonically in the innermost core of our democratic and social ideals.

    Frank Schirrmacher: Assume the Fetal Position 2008

  • Those gifts are bestowed on believers embryonically in the sacrament of confirmation, and are enhanced when we undergo that special manifestation of the power of the sacraments of initiation which is known among charismatics as "baptism in the Holy Spirit."

    Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006

  • Those gifts are bestowed on believers embryonically in the sacrament of confirmation, and are enhanced when we undergo that special manifestation of the power of the sacraments of initiation which is known among charismatics as "baptism in the Holy Spirit."

    The splendor of the firmament Mike L 2006

  • I was involved with her embryonically, she started at Welnor (ph), she came on my radio show a long time ago, before she ...

    CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2004 2004

  • I was involved with her embryonically, she started at Welnor (ph), she came on my radio show a long time ago, before she ...

    CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2004 2004

  • Regeneration heals the ravages of sin -- embryonically in this life, and with ever greater fullness in the next.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • CARTER: I thought first about getting a professional illustrator to do them, because I kind of wanted an illustration for each one, but I realized that Sara was a very accomplished young artist embryonically.

    Always a Reckoning and Other Poems 1995

  • Their own embryonically political populism, radical but — except in local community organization — not democratic, has in the past been most easily mobilized into a mass movement by demagogic presidents or ex-presidents, preferably military.

    A Special Supplement: Chile: Year One Hobsbawm, E.J. 1971

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