dictionarily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In terms of, or by means of, a dictionary or dictionaries collectively.
Example Sentences
- "We, therefore, need not seek for a starting point for this paper, for, dictionarily, progress and extension are synonyms."
- "Is it the case that someone identifies himself as an X every time he says that he is an X or acknowledges that he is an X? That might be literally or 'dictionarily' so."
- "It lays foundation for a society where rule of law has primary and not arbitrary or capricious exercise of power. 'Life' dictionarily means, 'State of functional activity and continual change peculiar to organised matter, and especially to the portion of it constituting an animal or plant before death; animate existence; being alive. But used in the constitution it may not be mere existence."
- ""Tort" dictionarily means 'breach of duty leading to damage'. Same meaning attaches to it in law. In general, torts consist of some act done without just cause or excuse."
- "Eyeing at the table full of scribbled papers he dictionarily imparted, “a large book or volume”."
Etymology
From dictionary + -ly.