adv. Obs. [See prec.] Specifically.
c. 1600. Timon, IV. iii. (1842), 66. The moone may be taken 4 manner of waies; either specificatiuely, or quidditatiuely, or superficially, or catapodially.
1659. H. L’Estrange, Alliance Div. Off., 134. In thy seed (declaring specificatively in whose) shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
1678. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, IV. III. ii. 31. As here … cannot be taken Reduplicatively, but only Specificatively, as it specifies one and the same Act.
1701. Norris, Ideal World, I. iii. 164. Which phrase must be taken specificatively, not objectively.
