adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
† 1. By alchemy. Obs.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. II. iv. (1676), 179. A lamp to be made of mans blood … which Chymically prepared forty dayes … shall shew all the accidents of this life.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., II. 121/1. He … chimically turnes his coyne to liquor.
2. In a chemical manner, by a chemical process; in relation to chemistry.
1663. P. Skippon, Journ., in Voy. & Trav. (1746), VI. 547. Four hundred glass bottles filled with the Materia Medica, chymically prepared.
1782. A. Monro, Anat., 13. Chemically analysed.
1842. W. Grove, Corr. Phys. Forces, 50. The substance … is … precipitated … chemically speaking, in an unaltered state.
1871. Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (ed. 6), I. iv. 102. The more refrangible rays are the most chemically active.
1883. Standard, 27 April, 6/1. The nitric [acid] was commercially pure. There is another chemically pure.
