Extensively

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In an extensive manner.

  1.  Widely, largely; to a great extent; on a large scale; with a wide range.

1730–6.  in Bailey (folio).

1741.  Watts, Improv. Mind, I. xvi. § 3. 235. ’Tis impossible for any to pass a right Judgment concerning them without … surveying them extensively.

1804.  L. Murray, Eng. Grammar, Advt., He may … indulge a hope, that the book will be still more extensively approved and circulated.

1841–71.  T. R. Jones, Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4), 298. Numerous arterial canals … ramify extensively in the surrounding structures.

1879.  Lubbock, Sci. Lect., v. 158. A period when bronze was extensively used for … implements.

  2.  In extent or scope; with respect to range of application. Often opposed to intensively. † Extensively with: so as to be co-extensive with.

1645.  E. Calamy, Indictm. agst. Eng., 3. Christ here sets out the greatnesse of the ruine … and that both Intensively, and Extensively.

a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies, Westminster (1811), II. 103. Let it [Westminster] be taken … extensively with the Liberty of Lancaster from Temple Bar, and it filleth as much ground [etc.].

1713.  Lond. Gaz., No. 5119/2. A Peace so extensively great in all its Circumstances.

1794.  Mathias, Purs. Lit. (1798), 380. The most extensively learned book I ever saw.

1836.  J. Gilbert, Chr. Atonem., iii. (1852), 64. As truly we say, not as extensively; but in considering the justice of such substitution, the extent is of no moment.

1855.  Bain, Senses & Int., II. iii. § 7. 553. Increase of resemblance extensively … has the same power as increase of resemblance intensively, in rendering the restoration of the past more certain.

  b.  In extension (in Logic); with respect to extension. See EXTENSION 8 b.

1837.  Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, viii. (1866), I. 146. A notion is extensively great in proportion to the greater number … of determinations or attributes it contains under it.

1864.  Bowen, Logic, viii. 237. Reasoning Extensively, we say, men are a part or class of responsible agents, and are, therefore, also a part of free agents.

  3.  With respect to extension (or the quality of occupying space). See EXTENSION 7 b.

1888.  G. C. Robertson, in Mind, July, 423. By more complex efforts … we distinguish this and that extensively within such body.