adv. [f. THETICAL + -LY2.] In a thetical manner; by way of assertion or positive statement; positively.

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1657.  W. Morice, Coena quasi Κοινὴ, v. 58. Why should the same thing be true when proposed thetically, generall and to the ear, and false when applyed hypothetically, particularly and to the eye…?

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1697.  G. K., Disc. Geom. Problems, 12. [I] have proposed it rather Problematically than Thetically.

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1870.  M. J. Evans, Oosterzee’s Theol. N. T., 305. The doctrine of justification is in the Epistle to the Romans presented more thetically (i. e. by way of statement), in Galatians more polemically.

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