Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Optically; as through some optical instrument.
- According to the rules of perspective.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare Optically; as through a glass.
- adverb According to the rules of perspective.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb By means of
perspective ; in perspective.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We also see glimpses of Grosz's grotesque watercolors, and Beckmann's perspectively challenged sheets of street walkers and martyrs alike all treated with shades as luminescent and varied as those engineered digitally in present day.
Alexander Adler: Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of The World Alexander Adler 2011
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Worse, it places Obama into two equally perspectively distasteful positions in addition to being distracting from the overall merits of his campaign platform itself.
MLK Day Steven Barnes 2008
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But what Lucia and I will do without the man of our culturally, religiously, perspectively, wackily, outrageously diverse trio consisting of 3 incredibly different and unique people brought together under the strange circumstances only Peace Corps can offer - we shall yet see!
Archive 2006-05-01 bulgariangoodie 2006
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But what Lucia and I will do without the man of our culturally, religiously, perspectively, wackily, outrageously diverse trio consisting of 3 incredibly different and unique people brought together under the strange circumstances only Peace Corps can offer - we shall yet see!
bulgarian goodie bulgariangoodie 2006
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It would have been ideal to sort of do that perspectively, find out what they eat and figure out if they develop breast cancer.
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Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with maiden walls that war hath never entered.
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DOBBS: Give us your assessment perspectively as to whether or not we have sufficient troops or capable now of moving ahead with elections in Iraq in January.
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It would be unwise and certainly unhelpful for me to prejudge what we might do perspectively.
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ZAHN: Military involvement from other nations perspectively?
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But I'm saying to you, if we're going to get along in America, looking perspectively, then it makes sense to be in a diverse setting, because we're moving so quickly to our gated communities in the suburbs, and our churches aren't, — where else?
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