adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  By means of evidence; as regards evidence; with regard to its value as evidence.

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1654.  Eyre, in Warren, Unbelievers, B iij. Faith is from justification causally, and justification by faith evidentially.

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a. 1734.  North, Lives (1826), I. 362. It was believed, though not so soon evidentially discovered, that a rebellion was ready to break out.

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1836.  G. S. Faber, Answ. Husenbeth, 6. Any doctrine which can be shewn evidentially to have existed in the third century.

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1886.  Gurney, Phantasms of Living, I. 35. Of the two series … the second is evidentially to be preferred.

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  † 2.  Intuitively. Obs.

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a. 1716.  South, Serm. (1744), IX. xi. 323. They [angels] do not fully and evidentially know them [the mysteries of God].

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