adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2. Cf. F. textuellement.]
1. In or as regards the text.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. ix. 351. As no lesse textually, then marginally, both waies, you blaze it.
1847. De Quincey, Orthographic Mutineers, Wks. 1860, XIV. 104. In our authorized version italics are used exclusively to indicate such words or auxiliary forms as, though implied and virtually present in the original, are not textually expressed.
2. In the actual words of the text; verbatim.
1837. Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar, Ded. (1844), 10. As they only exist in manuscript, I shall place them textually before you.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 205. The theory that his plays should be represented textually.
1884. Truth, 4 Sept., 364/2. To report textually a debate from 4.30 p.m. to 2 a.m. would fill thirty columns of the Times.