adv. [f. TYPICAL + -LY2.] In a typical manner.
1. By way of or by means of a type or types; figuratively; symbolically; emblematically.
1605. Willet, Hexapla Gen., 455. It typically also setteth the practises of the scribes.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. x. 506. How could the Priesthood of our Sauiour Christ be typically shaddowed and prefigured by two?
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., ix. 334. The things they typically represented were come to pass.
1786. A. Maclean, Christ’s Commission, I. 15. The nations of this world are neither typically nor spiritually related to God as His Church and Kingdom.
1836. J. Gilbert, Chr. Atonem., Notes (1852), 335. What is true typically of the legal sacrifices, is true really of Christ’s sacrifice.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, iv. 193. We find the fundamental moral law of Nemesis as a part of the Divine government of the world expressed typically … in the Oresteia.
2. So as to constitute a type; in conformity with the type; representatively; characteristically.
1868. Carpenter, in Sci. Opinion, 6 Jan. (1869), 174/2. Numerous specimens of the typically triradiate.
1872. Yeats, Growth Comm., 10. The Phoenicians were typically a nation of traders.
1910. Seligmann, Melanesians Brit. N. Guinea, Introd. 2. The character of its [the nose’s] bridge varies, typically the nostrils are broad.
