adv. [f. prec. + -LY2: see -ICALLY.] In a sympathetic manner; by, with, or in the way of sympathy (in various senses).
1. (See SYMPATHETIC a. 1, 1 c, 1 e, SYMPATHY 1, 1 b, 1 c.)
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. III. iv. 53. The first [kind of melancholy] proceeds from the sole fault of the Braine…: the second sympathetically proceedes from the whole Body, when the whole temperature is Melancholy.
1669. Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 192. Take a live Coal, and hold it as near … to the place as you can … endure it, which will Sympathetically attract the fiery venom that by the sting was left in the wound.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iii. 161. The Plastick Nature acting neither by Knowledge nor by Animal Fancy … must be concluded to act Fatally, Magically and Sympathetically.
1785. Warton, Note Milton’s Ode Passion, 43. He seems … to have catched sympathetically Sandys’s sudden impulse to break forth into a devout song.
1851. H. Mayo, Pop. Superst. (ed. 2), 42. The … directly or sympathetically disordered brain.
1860. W. Collins, Wom. White, I. ix. 47. No serious alteration could take place in any one of us which did not sympathetically affect the others.
Mod. When one string of a piano is struck with the pedal held down, other strings vibrate sympathetically.
2. (See SYMPATHETIC a. 3, SYMPATHY 3.)
1825. Scott, Betrothed, xxix. A faithful domestic sympathetically agitated by the bad news with which he was about to afflict his master.
1870. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. li. 13. He will speak sympathetically, as one who has felt what he declares.
1885. Manch. Exam., 4 Nov., 3/3. A … sympathetically written criticism.
