English

Adverb

instrumently ‎(comparative more instrumently, superlative most instrumently)

1. (rare, archaic, now nonstandard) By means of an instrument; instrumentally.
   • 1654, John Webster, Academiarum examen, or the examination of academies:

     ... for whereas Aristotle himself presupposeth his Auscultator or Scholar in Physicks to have been already trained up in the Mathematical Sciences (which are indeed instrumently subordinate to natural Philosophy as introductive thereunto) [...]

   • 1821, Richard Hooker, ‎Izaak Walton, The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker:

     They do not so interpret "the words of Christ, as if the name of his body did import but the figure of his body ; and to be, were only to signify his blood, They grant that these holy mysteries, received in due manner, do instrumently both make us both partakers of the grace of that body and blood which were given for the life of the world, and besides also impart unto us, even in true and real, though mystical manner, the very person of our Lord himself, whole, perfect, and entire, as hath been shewed.

   • 1881, Franklin Platt, The Geology of Blair County - Volume 57 - Page 48:

     The fact is, that we cannot properly describe the combined Medina and Oneida formation No. IV, until we obtain at least twenty instrumently-measured sections of it in various parts of middle Pennsylvania.

   • 2006, Family Medicine - Page 113:

     The A.B.V and similar devices used often by psychologists to attempt to measure neurotic instability instrumently will have to be validated in general practice.

   • 2006, Louis Goldstein, ‎D. H. Whalen, ‎Catherine T. Best, Laboratory Phonology 8 - Volume 8 - Page 303:

     It is possible to measure the activity of each variable instrumently, as has been done by Cheek (2001) for the knuckles and by Mauk (2003) for the wrist.

Related terms

• instrument
• instrumental