Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a circumspective manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Circumspectly.
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- adverb In a
circumspective manner.
Etymologies
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circumspective + -ly
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Examples
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But some propositions are self-evident only to the wise who understand the meaning of the terms of such propositions; thus to one who understands that an angel is not a body, it is self-evident that an angel is not circumspectively in a place; but this is not evident to the unlearned, for they cannot grasp it.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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