Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an axiomatic manner. By the use of axioms; as an axiom or axiomatic truth. In logic, in the form of a simple proposition. See
axiom , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.
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- adverb By the use of
axioms ; in the form of an axiom.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb on the basis of axioms
Etymologies
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Examples
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Granted that today women cannot afford to exclude themselves axiomatically from the military complex, where is the line to be drawn?
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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From a sector perspective, this means that the government's running a deficit on goods and services axiomatically translates into the rest of the economy's running a surplus.
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I haven't tied this "axiomatically" - it's a result of years of observing players, and it emerges from my earlier studies on player types.
WoW-nnui 2006
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The pedant might note that the Internet, axiomatically, is all social media, but for the purposes of this discussion, let’s say that social media includes any digital environment built on the contributions of and interactions among people — or in the case of dogster. com, their dogs.
The Web 2.0 Bubble 2007
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The pedant might note that the Internet, axiomatically, is all social media, but for the purposes of this discussion, let’s say that social media includes any digital environment built on the contributions of and interactions among people — or in the case of dogster. com, their dogs.
The Web 2.0 Bubble 2007
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I have spent the evening remodelling my Introduction, so as to define the two terms axiomatically with my subsequent argument, and I find it greatly improved.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896
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However, my deepest resentment is reserved for the so-called mainstream economics textbooks in which competition, and by implication monopoly, has been treated axiomatically, that is to say, as-a-matter-of-factly.
Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2008
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To be both liberal and democratic is to be axiomatically part of a club that examines itself.
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We all used to be, axiomatically and for untold millennia, small.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Anyone who feared the gods therefore knew that he had to treat his fellow man fairly—showing deference to the elderly, not taking advantage of the weak, the poor, or the slave—or else the gods, since they were axiomatically associated with fairness, might go after him for not doing so.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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