adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] As regards construction or structure.
1737. Waterland, Eucharist, Wks. 1823, VII. 151. Levi paid tithes in Abraham, not literally, but constructionally, or as one may say. Ibid., 170. He [Tertullian] cannot be understood to mean less than that the symbolical body is constructionally or interpretatively the real body.
1839. Morn. Chron., 6 April, 5/4. If he spoke constructionally, every person would put what construction on the oath they pleased.
1880. Athenæum, 29 May, 703/1. Artistically decorated, not constructionally enriched. Ibid. (1890), 11 Oct., 489/1. Constructionally the arrangement is bad.
