Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a reciprocal manner; with reciprocating action or effect; alternatingly; interchangeably; correspondingly.
- In a reciprocal ratio or proportion; inversely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.
- adverb (Math.) In the manner of reciprocals.
- adverb (Arith. & Alg.) proportional, as two variable quantities, so that the one shall have a constant ratio to the reciprocal of the other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
reciprocal manner; by way ofreturning (e.g. afavour ,insult , etc).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a mutual or shared manner
- adverb (often followed by `for') in exchange or in reciprocation
- adverb in an inverse or contrary manner
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Examples
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Thus we cannot use the terms reciprocally, for the word
Categories 2002
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Thus we cannot use the terms reciprocally, for the word
Categories 2002
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Thus we cannot use the terms reciprocally, for the word 'boat' cannot be said to find its explanation in the word 'rudder'.
Categoriae. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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I find my spirits and my health affect each other reciprocally that is to say, every thing that discomposes my mind, produces a correspondent disorder in my body; and my bodily complaints are remarkably mitigated by those considerations that dissipate the clouds of mental chagrin. —
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By means of the meal in presence of Jehovah is established a covenant fellowship on the one hand between Him and the guests, and on the other hand between the guests themselves reciprocally, which is essential for the idea of sacrifice and gives their name to the Shelamim (compare Exodus xviii. 12, xxiv.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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(The latter is likely, because media types tend to have take the 're' out of 'research' and hit Google, and the SMC will have ensured high rankings by linking to — and being linked back to reciprocally by — other SMCs.)
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.
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In this work Archimedes explains the Law of the Lever, stating: "Magnitudes are in equilibrium at distances reciprocally proportional to their weights."
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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He deemed the clerk a filthy, uncultured brute, whose place was in the muck with the swine, and told him so; and he was reciprocally informed that he was a milk-and-water sissy and a cad.
In a Far Country 2010
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By this circumstance of his birth, he is subjected to the duty of allegiance which is claimed and enforced by the sovereign of his native land, and becomes reciprocally entitled to the protection of that sovereign, and to the other rights and advantages which are included in the term “citizenship.”
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