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from The Century Dictionary.
- In a restricted manner; with limitation.
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Examples
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Most of us are now used to the slogan "learning by doing" and the implicit opposition between "knowing" brain-based, or even more restrictedly, mind-based and "doing" which involves a range of associated skills, from perception to reasoning.
Saving "knowing" from imminent execution Peter Isackson 2006
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There are in the United States of America at least 81 libraries of 5000 volumes and upwards each, to which the public, more or less restrictedly, have access, and of these 49 are immediately connected with colleges or public schools.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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The disadvantage, I distinctly felt, was hers, solely and restrictedly hers; and I should have treated with profound respect, if I had come across him, the professional traveler who was good enough to marry her afterward.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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Her husband was a notoriously lazy man, who had chosen to live restrictedly upon an inherited property rather than increase it by the smallest exertion.
April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878
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The context shows that this is part of the Apostle's directory for public worship, and that, therefore, the terms of the first clause are to be taken somewhat restrictedly.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Whatever is truly great in either Greek or Christian art, is also restrictedly human; and even the raptures of the redeemed souls who enter "celestemente ballando," [188] the gate of Angelico's
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859
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Whatever is truly great in either Greek or Christian art, is also restrictedly human; and even the raptures of the redeemed souls who enter, "celestemente ballando," the gate of Angelico's Paradise, were seen first in the terrestrial, yet most pure, mirth of Florentine maidens.
Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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Some understand this too restrictedly, as if the meaning were, "Swear not at your persecutors, at those that reproach you and say all manner of evil of you; be not put into a passion by the injuries they do you, so as in your passion to be provoked to swear."
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Up to now, the creditors of the banks did not have to make any contribution - and shareholders only contributed very restrictedly.
Indybay newswire Friedhelm Hengsbach 2010
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Homologs of highly lineage-specific genes are distributed restrictedly in fewer species in a given phylogeny, while homologs of highly conserved genes are distributed broadly in many groups of species.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Takao Kasuga et al. 2009
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