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- adverb Alternative form of
homeopathically .
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Examples
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Spirit of raspberries, or their ghost--- this crystalline distillation, twinkling and ice-cold in its misty goblet, looked as though it were homoeopathically in league with the weather.
A Time of Gifts Walter Jon Williams 2007
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Spirit of raspberries, or their ghost--- this crystalline distillation, twinkling and ice-cold in its misty goblet, looked as though it were homoeopathically in league with the weather.
Archive 2007-06-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007
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The rapid motion gratified my restlessness, and, together with the noise, soothed me homoeopathically.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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Taken homoeopathically, it may be harmless; but if it become a habit, a necessity, it must vitiate, enervate, destroy.
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Used homoeopathically, it may be harmless, but if taken in considerable doses, even once a month, it prevents all cure.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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He may turn his attention to the healing art; and allopathically, homoeopathically, hydropathically, electropathically, or by any other path, run a muck through many heathen hospitals.
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We are a phlegmatic set, to whom such zests should be dealt out homoeopathically: else do we soon begin to criticise and take exceptions.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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Hence this belief in the noxious and infectious nature of certain personal qualities or accidents has given rise to a number of prohibitions or rules of avoidance: people abstain from doing certain things lest they should homoeopathically infect the fruits of the earth with their own undesirable state or condition.
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In the foregoing cases a person is supposed to influence vegetation homoeopathically.
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This example illustrates the extremely materialistic view which these savages take of the nature of words; they suppose that the mere utterance of an expression signifying clumsiness will homoeopathically affect with clumsiness the limbs of their distant foemen.
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