efficaciously

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adverb

in an efficacious manner

Scrabble 26

Meanings

adverbefficaciously (comparative more efficaciously, superlative most efficaciously)

comparative more efficaciously · superlative most efficaciously

  1. in an efficacious manner

    […] if in this extatick State of Dreaming (during which the Astral Impulses are incomparably stronger than in common Dreams, or in the ordinary Course of Life) that prophetick Energy more efficaciously exerts itself […]

    1724, John Beaumont, Gleanings of Antiquities, page 192
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    There could be no more perfect description of the divided will, when the higher wishes lack just that last acuteness, that touch of explosive intensity, of dynamogenic quality (to use the slang of the psychologists), that enables them to burst their shell, and make irruption efficaciously into life and quell the lower tendencies forever.

    1902, William James, “Lecture VIII: The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 173

    The only minister who openly upheld the railway scheme without exhibiting any fear of undue American influence was General Gonzalez, minister of war, who later became the successor of General Diaz in the executive office, and efficaciously aided him in removing the prejudices of his colleagues.

    1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Mexico, volume 6, Chapter 19

    The same is at any time produced by superadding a little wine or opium to our common meals; or by taking these separately in considerable quantity; and this more efficaciously after fatigue or inanition; because a less quantity of any stimulating material will excite an organ into energetic action, after it has lately been torpid from defect of stimulus

    1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin an effective manner

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinefficāx
  2. Old Frenchefficacieux
  3. Englishefficacious
  4. Englishefficaciously

From efficacious + -ly.

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Translations

Italian efficacemente
  • efficacementein an efficacious manner
Latin efficāciter
  • efficāciterin an efficacious manner
Portuguese eficazmente
  • eficazmentein an efficacious manner
Russian эффективно
  • эффективно (effektivno)in an efficacious manner
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