outerly

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adverb

Toward or on the outside; outwardly.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adverbouterly (comparative more outerly, superlative most outerly)

comparative more outerly · superlative most outerly

  1. rareToward or on the outside; outwardly.

    The class of minimal clauses is outerly sentineled by the negative example.

    2012, Bruno Apolloni, Franz Kurfess, From Synapses to Rules, page 51
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    In the lower Jaw, two Tusks, one on each side, like those of a Boar, standing outerly, an inch behind the Cuters

    1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC

    If in an harmonic range one point halve innerly the tract between two conjugates, the other (its conjugate) must halve the same tract outerly, i.e., must be at ∞.

    1888, W. B. Smith, Elementary Co-ordinate Geometry, page 53

    (c) means securing the resulting innerly disposed hollow member within the resulting outerly disposed hollow member in the above-indicated positional relationship thereto;

    1964, Harry W. Carpenter, “3146608: Cooling Device”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 83

    But it is outerly imposed Confusion that one has to be aware of at all times and try to eradicate.

    2019, Vasile Munteanu, The Karma of Self, page 64

    It comes to existence as "the rose" because we outerly label it that way, not the other way around.

    2020, Vida Demarin, Mind and Brain: Bridging Neurology and Psychiatry, page 34
adjective
  1. Outer; not internal.

    To reclaim the six hundred foot strip lying between the Milwaukee River Flushing Tunnel Inlet and Wisconsin Street, a breakwater had to be constructed along the outerly line.

    1913, Milwaukee (Wis.). Board of Park Commissioners, Annual Report of the Park Commissioners of the City of Milwaukee
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    In a sand papering machine, the combinations with the holder and the bed supporting the material to be sand papered, of a holder for the sand paper, composed of a box or frame carrying inner and outerly plates and means for moving the plates against an interposed block of flexible substance, and against interposed portions of the sand paper, respectively, the said holder being adapted to slide on a frame, and means for reciprocating the holder along the said frame, substantially as shown and described.

    1895 July 2, Henry E. Pauk, Jr., “541878: Sandpapering Machine”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 72, page 22

    This is because the copulative verb in Wordsworth is real verb^([sic]), from his own mind and feelings, and not merely the arranger of action of outerly characters or objects.

    1984, John Powell Ward, Wordsworth's Language of Men, page 192

    Resolved, That permission be and hereby is granted to the Consumers' Ice Co. to use and to occupy, during the will of Board, the Pier at the foot of Horatio street, North river (except reservation for public bath at the outerly northerly side), at the rate of $ 150 per month, payable monthly or during occupancy, to the Treasurer of this Department, commencing May 1 , 1887.

    1888, Annual Report of the Department of Docks For the Year Ending April 30, 1888, page 158
  2. Moving toward the outside.

    Ships that are bound to the northward may, with N.W. winds, anchor to the southward of Calk Skerry in 8 or 9 fathoms; but must be careful to avoid being caught there with outerly winds.

    1818, John William Norie, New and extensive sailing directions for the navigation of The North Sea, page 77
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    In pursuance of your directions to report to you my observations on the effect of the Admiralty Pier in affording shelter in Dover Bay during the gale of this day, I beg leave to inform you, that on arriving from Calais, at 5.15 a.m., with the "Princess Alice," it blew a strong gale at S.W., and a very heavy sea in the offing; but notwithstanding the outerly direction of the wind, and the roughness of the weather, we were enabled to anchor, and taking an in-shore berth in 2 fathoms, we landed 69 passengers and their baggage.

    1851, Great Britain House of Commons, Accounts and papers - Volume 22

    So when for the third time the boy had been tumbled upon the beach, John Mure bade Bannatyne bring his boat, saying that they would cast the loon afloat out in the deeps of the bay, so that the outerly wind might drive him to the coast of Ireland.

    1896, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Gray Man: A Novel, page 339

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