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Webster 1913 Edition


Eclectically

Ec-lec′tic-al-ly

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adv.
In an eclectic manner; by an eclectic method.

Webster 1828 Edition


Eclectically

ECLEC'TICALLY

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adv.
By way of choosing or selecting; in the manner of the eclectical philosophers.

Definition 2024


eclectically

eclectically

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eclectically (comparative more eclectically, superlative most eclectically)

  1. In an eclectic manner.
    • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:
      He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.

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