Definition of Modally

1. adv. In a modal manner.

Definition of Modally

1. Adverb. In a modal way. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Modally

1. in a manner pertaining to a mode [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Modally

modal scale
modal stacking
modal value
modal verb
modal verbs
modalise
modalised
modalises
modalising
modalism
modalisms
modalist
modalists
modalities
modality
modally (current term)
modals
modaraba
modarabas
modchip
modchips
moddable
modded
modder
modderite
modders
modding
mode
mode-locked
mode of discourse

Literary usage of Modally

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1913)
"Of the modally nsed forms, nearly a third are construed with imi ... Of the modally nsrd forms, about fonr fifths arc construed with nm prohibitive; ..."

2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1907)
"... that it contains no normative leucite, but that this mineral occurs modally; an uncolored circle, that, while the norm of the rock shows leucite, ..."

3. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"modally different sensations are derived from different senses, ... Heat and noise are modally different; such gradual transition is impossible. ..."

4. The Roman Comagmatic Region by Henry Stephens Washington (1906)
"Types which resemble each other as these do, which are found in the same column, may be said to be modally homologous. The relations are not always as ..."

5. Benedict de Spinoza: His Life, Correspondence, and Ethics by Robert Willis (1870)
"... not formally or really but modally only. Such are all entities or things which we perceive are neither comprised in extension, nor in motion or rest, ..."

6. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1904)
"According to a note from Dr. Washington " The normative orthoclase and olivine are present modally in the biotite. As the pyroxene contains undoubtedly a ..."

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