adv. [f. FEDERAL a. + -LY2.] In a federal manner. a. Theol. On the basis or faith of a covenant. b. After the manner of a federation.
1644–5. in Scobell, Acts & Ord., I. (1658), 83. They are Christians and fœderally holy before Baptism.
1692. Burnet, Past. Care, viii. 94. A share in all which is there Federally offered to us.
a. 1703. Burkitt, On N. T., Matt. xxii. 33. Their Souls are yet alive, fœderally alive unto God.
1843. J. Martineau, Chr. Life (1867), 142. Every land, aware that it is but one of a company of nations, federally bound of God by irrepressible aspirings to himself, chants its mighty note with deeper meaning, as part of a universal symphony heard in its unity in Heaven alone.
