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Webster 1913 Edition


Perspectively

Per-spec′tive-ly

(pẽr-spĕk′tĭv-ly̆)
,
adv.
1.
Optically; as through a glass.
[R.]
You see them
perspectively
.
Shakespeare
2.
According to the rules of perspective.

Webster 1828 Edition


Perspectively

PERSPEC'TIVELY

,
adv.
Optically; through a glass; by representation.

Definition 2024


perspectively

perspectively

English

Adverb

perspectively (not comparable)

  1. By means of perspective; in perspective.
    • 2009 March 13, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
      Once into the 1990s, thinly drawn egg- and pill-shaped ovals appear everywhere, leaning together, like Modigliani heads or plates seen perspectively in a cupboard.