Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a hygienic manner; in accordance with the laws of health.

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  • adverb in a hygienic manner
  • adverb in relation to hygiene

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  • adverb in a hygienic manner

Etymologies

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From hygienic +‎ -ally.

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Examples

  • It can, however, without prejudicing the objective, be restricted to those cases which constitute a danger to their acquaintances and so to patients with open tuberculosis in hygienically unfavourable conditions.

    Robert Koch - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • At this point he will begin to be born anew morally, emerging from the pure and essential chrysalis of the "hygienically" living man.

    Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

  • Everything else that comes out of your body, you get rid of as quickly and as hygienically as possible; this, you give to your baby?

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • For years to come, you will have the satisfaction of having helped children poop safely and hygienically.

    3 Blogs in 1: Lucky You! KateG 2009

  • Everything else that comes out of your body, you get rid of as quickly and as hygienically as possible; this, you give to your baby?

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • At that temperature, hygienically processed meat of healthy animals spoils within a day, not to mention the meat of sick animals slaughtered in unhygienic conditions.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • At that temperature, hygienically processed meat of healthy animals spoils within a day, not to mention the meat of sick animals slaughtered in unhygienic conditions.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • For years to come, you will have the satisfaction of having helped children poop safely and hygienically.

    Archive 2009-05-01 KateG 2009

  • In the early 1940s some 100,000 Jews and Romanis died of engineered starvation and disease in the Warsaw Ghetto, another quarter of a million were transported to the death camps, and when the Ghetto rose up it was liquidated, the last 50,000 residents being either shot on the spot or sent to be murdered more hygienically in Treblinka.

    Howard Jacobson speaks his mind Not a sheep 2009

  • At that temperature, hygienically processed meat of healthy animals spoils within a day, not to mention the meat of sick animals slaughtered in unhygienic conditions.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

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