adv. [f. LOGICAL a. + -LY2.] In a logical manner; according to the principles of logic or the laws of sound reasoning.

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1620.  T. Granger, Div. Logike, I. xli. 143. Vpon which consideration Ramus most prudently, and truly logically iudgeth the nature of the argument.

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1695.  Ld. Preston, Boeth., III. 134. It is most logically and truly concluded.

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1717.  Prior, Alma, II. 109. From hence I logically gather, The woman cannot live with either.

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1827.  Whately, Logic, III. § 9 (ed. 2), 163. His argument, Logically developed, will stand thus.

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1836.  Hor. Smith, Tin Trump. (1869), 255. As one of his parishioners very logically remarked.

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