Locally

adv. In 5 localliche. [f. LOCAL a. + -LY².] In a local manner.

  1.  In respect to place, or position in space.

c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, I. lxxxvi. (1869), 49. Now lady,… quod he, vnderstonde ye that localliche, virtualliche, or oother wise?

1551.  Cranmer, Answ. to Gardiner, III. 85. The body of Christ was & is all one to y^e fathers & to vs, but corporally & locally he was not yet born vnto them.

1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. II. viii. By this faculty therefore we locally move the body.

1659.  Pearson, Creed (1839), 383. By which that body … became substantially present in heaven, and no longer locally present in earth.

1746–7.  Act 20 Geo. II., c. 43 § 15. The shire [or shires respectively] within which such lands do locally lie.

1796.  Burke, Regic. Peace, iv. Wks. IX. 104. That they look upon us, though locally, their countrymen, in reality as enemies.

1857.  Pusey, Real Presence, iii. (1869), 327. To Moses God appeared locally in the flame of fire in a bush.

1868.  M. Pattison, Academ. Org., iv. 122. These establishments are not subordinate to the University, within which they are locally situated.

  † 2.  In regard to a particular ‘place’ or topic; in particular circumstances. Obs.

1638.  Chillingw., Relig. Prot., I. v. § 47. 269. A man may Locally and properly depart from the Accidents of a subject, and not from the subject it selfe.

  † 3.  (Named) after a particular place. Obs.

c. 1630.  Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 223 (1810), 233. Soldon had … lords locally named.

a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 375. He was the last clergyman I find … who locally was surnamed.

  4.  In regard to a particular (geographical) place, or the situation of a particular object; in some particular place, in certain districts; in the particular place or district (specified or alluded to).

1860.  J. F. Thrupp, Study & Use Psalms, II. 66. Those Jewish opponents of Christianity, still, perhaps, locally, if not generally, formidable.

1862.  Ansted, Channel Isl., II. ix. (ed. 2), 233. The spiny lobster, locally called crayfish.

1863.  H. Cox, Instit., I. i. 7. A further division of the functions of government … distributes the offices of government locally under the heads of domestic, colonial, and international government.

1885.  Manch. Exam., 30 Dec., 5/5. Vigorous efforts are being made locally to cope with the distress.

  5.  In respect to some particular part or parts (e.g., of the body).

1800.  Jenner, in Med. Jrnl., III. 295. Dr. Jenner’s assertion, that a person may be ‘repeatedly affected, both locally and generally, with the Cow-pox.’

1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 860. Locally a menthol spray may be used.