adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2. Cf. F. textuellement.]

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  1.  In or as regards the text.

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1617.  Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. ix. 351. As no lesse textually, then marginally, both waies, you blaze it.

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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.

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  2.  In the actual words of the text; verbatim.

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1837.  Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar, Ded. (1844), 10. As they only exist in manuscript, I shall place them textually before you.

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1870.  Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 205. The theory that his plays should be represented textually.

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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.

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