adv. [f. SOCIAL a.]
† 1. Sc. In company. Obs.–1
1505. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 432. Thai sale … pass tua and ij togidr socialie.
† 2. As a member of a body or society. (Opposed to severally.) Obs. rare.
1642. Bridge, Wounded Consc. Cured, 31. The subjects are considered two waies: Socially [and] Severally.
1647. Digges, Unlawf. Taking Arms, iv. 88. Which are the acts of them not as single men, but as united bodies, and considered … socially, not severally.
3. In a social manner; sociably.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Ess., Wks. 1777, II. 215. If the selfish passion of the rest preponderate, it would be self-destructive in a few individuals to be over-socially disposed.
1810. J. Foster, in Life & Corr. (1846), I. 421. We read socially a great deal.
1850. R. G. Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. Africa (1902), 57/2. These remarkable birds … construct their nests and live socially together under one common roof.
1891. E. Kinglake, Australian at H., 91. They are young barristers, doctors, or solicitors, sons of … socially minded stock and share brokers.
4. In respect of, with regard to, society.
1871. Smiles, Charac., ii. (1876), 59. The result has been socially disastrous.
1876. Encycl. Brit., V. 696/2. The influence of Christianity was making itself felt morally, socially, and politically.
