a. Math. Obs. rare. [f. EMINENT a. + -IAL.] (See quot. 1796.)
1736. in Bailey.
1751. in Chambers.
1775. in Ash.
1796. Hutton, Math. Dict., Eminential equation, a term used by some algebraists, in the investigation of the areas of curvilineal figures, for a kind of assumed equation that contains another equation eminently, the latter being a particular case of the former.
1847. in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.
Hence † Eminentially, Obs. rare; = EMINENTLY 4.
1656. [? J. Sergeant], trans. T. White’s Peripat. Inst., 328. This action, therefore, actuates the Creature with a certain indivisibility that eminentially contains divisibility.
