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CHARACTERISTICALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In characteristic manner

Example:

he arrived characteristically late

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

uncharacteristically (in uncharacteristic manner)

Pertainym:

characteristic (typical or distinctive)

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 Context examples: 

This species is catalase and urease positive, acid-fast, hydrolyzes esculin but not casein, reduces nitrate, and characteristically produces a mycelium that fragments into bacillary and coccoid elements.

(Nocardia asteroides, NCI Thesaurus)

I see genuine contentment in your gait and mien, your eye and face, when you are helping me and pleasing me—working for me, and with me, in, as you characteristically say, 'all that is right:' for if I bid you do what you thought wrong, there would be no light-footed running, no neat-handed alacrity, no lively glance and animated complexion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Pathologic Ab-Ig Proteins are immunoglobulin-related (IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM antibody) glycoproteins characteristically found in patients with multiple myeloma, infectious diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and other connective tissue diseases, or systemic autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjogren's syndrome, scleroderma, polymyositis, and mixed connective tissue disease.

(Pathologic Ab-Ig Protein, NCI Thesaurus)