humanwise

comparative more humanwise · superlative most humanwise · alternative human-wise

1. In a humanly order, manner, or fashion; in a way typical of humans

   In his view, there are no such things; there are just particles arranged humanwise.

   2014, A. J. Cotnoir, Donald L. M. Baxter, Composition as Identity

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   We ourselves, like the savage, necessarily speak of God and imagine Him humanwise,—…

   1898, The Month: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Science and Art

   There is apparent everywhere an orderliness which we, humanwise, find suggestive of man's design, a conscious adherence to an architectural plan utilizing throughout the same long, parallel, west-slanting lines —…

   1966, The Tetons: Interpretations of a Mountain Landscape

   By contrast, a human being is one simpliciter, and not just one secundum quid, because, although a heap of stones is many stones arranged heapwise, a human being is not many organs or many cells or many atoms arranged humanwise.

   2015, Christopher Hughes, Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God