adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a technical manner; in relation to the arts and applied sciences, or to a particular art or subject; according to technical methods; in technical phraseology; in a technical sense.
a. 1652. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., vi. 247. That part of divine inspiration, which was more technically and properly by the Jews called prophecy.
1774. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, lxii. (1840), III. 404. The first professed English satirist, to speak technically, is bishop Joseph Hall.
1834–5. J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop., VI. 535/1. Confined to what is technically called the Crust of the Earth.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. viii. 223. A family which, though perhaps not technically noble, was … eminent and honourable.
