Analytically

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².]

  1.  By analytic method or process; by way or means of analysis.

1656.  Hobbes, Six Lessons, Wks. 1845, VII. 248. Has he not proceeded analytically in a hundred problems?

1748.  Hartley, Observ. Man, I. iii. § 2 ¶ 88. To determine these Associations, both analytically and synthetically.

1863.  Daily News, 11 Dec., 2/4. The mathematical papers will include … conic sections, treated both geometrically and analytically.

1878.  Huxley, Physiogr., 109. Proving the composition of water analytically.

  2.  After an analytical fashion; with an analytical tendency. rare.

1778.  Johnson, in Boswell (1831), IV. 114. To be distinct, we must talk analytically.

1855.  H. Spencer, Psychol. (1872), I. IV. viii. 478. To persons analytically inclined.