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  • adverb In a composite manner

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Examples

  • In its sort, the high altar, a gigantic triune, with massive twisted columns and swagger statues of saints and heroes in painted wood, is a prodigy of inventive piety, and compositely has a noble exaltation in its powerful lift to the roof.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • We here insert a few notes on cases which are not compositely imagined -- like Mary and John -- but are individually (though typically) existent in real life in one of the large American cities:

    The Women of Tomorrow 1910

  • They are nothing to shy at, being comfortable, well-fed spirits, compositely cosmopolitan.

    Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

  • The rise of clothing probably had its first psychical basis on an emotion of modesty already compositely formed of the elements we have traced.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

  • In its sort, the high altar, a gigantic triune, with massive twisted columns and swagger statues of saints and heroes in painted wood, is a prodigy of inventive piety, and compositely has a noble exaltation in its powerful lift to the roof.

    Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

  • Was there ever a more compositely polyglot cosmopolitan than poor young de Liefde -- half

    Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

  • Boeing performed a crash test on its new compositely constructed 787 Dreamliner by dropping a cutaway section of the fuselage onto a test platform.

    All DN headlines 2009

  • So, in all PersonID and Version will compositely form the Composite Key.

    SQLServerCentral.com Articles 2008

  • Whatever else is contained in Mr. Neville I don't know; but I like him separately and compositely, and I'm happy when I'm with him. "

    The Common Law 1899

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  • adv: by, from, or in separate parts

    April 24, 2009