Exclusively

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².]

  † 1.  In an exclusive sense; by an exclusive mode of computation; with exclusion of the extreme points of a series. Obs.: cf. EXCLUSIVE A. 4 b.

1597.  T. Morley, Introd. Mus., 70. In reckoning your distances, for you vnderstood me exclusiuely, and I meant inclusiuely.

1656.  Cowley, Davideis, III. (1669), 119, note. Some understand this gift exclusively, as to the Sword, Bow, and Girdle.

1661.  Boyle, Spring of Air, III. ix. (1682), 74. All the Experiments from the 9 to the 17 exclusively our examiner leaving uncensured.

1679–88.  Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden), 146. Com’encing the 20th of September last exclusively, and ending the 14th Dec. instant inclusively.

1726.  Ayliffe, Parergon, 152. The first Part lasts from the Date of the Citation to the joining of Issue or Contestation of Suit, exclusively.

1805.  East, Reports, V. 246. The word until … is used indifferently either inclusively or exclusively.

  † 2.  To the exclusion of, without the participation of, the persons or things designated. Const. of, to. Obs.

1650.  Bp. Taylor, Lib. Proph., App. to § 18 (1817), 409. [In baptism] when water is taken exclusively to the Spirit, it is very true that it is not water that cleanses the soul.

1661.  Boyle, Scept. Chem., VI. 411–2 (J.). To be esteemed exclusively to all the rest, its in-existent Elementary Ingredients.

1725.  Broome, Notes Pope’s Odyss., VII. 196, II. 110 (J.). She commands him to address himself to the Queen;… chiefly or primarily, but not exclusively of the King.

1748.  Hartley, Observ. Man, I. iii. 389. These Criterions might establish the Genuineness of the Prophecies, exclusively of all other Evidences.

  3.  So as to exclude all except some particular object, subject, etc.; solely.

1650.  Cromwell, Lett., 12 Sept. Are you troubled that Christ is preached? Is preaching so exclusively your function?

1794.  Paley, Evid. (1825), II. 294. The power of life and death resided exclusively in the Roman governor.

1825.  McCulloch, Pol. Econ., II. ii. 153. We do not owe our fires exclusively to the miner, or exclusively to the coal merchant.

  † 4.  In a spirit of exclusiveness. Obs. rare.

1814.  Jane Austen, Mansf. Park (1851), 71. A set of men you condemn so exclusively.