| Library / English Dictionary |
SPECIALLY
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common
Example:
an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger
Synonyms:
especially; particularly; peculiarly; specially
Classified under:
Pertainym:
special (surpassing what is common or usual or expected)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a special manner
Example:
a specially arranged dinner
Synonyms:
especially; specially
Classified under:
Pertainym:
special (for a special service or occasion)
Context examples:
I commend it very specially to your attention, Lestrade and also the bullets which fit it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He forgave everybody, even the cub reporter who had painted him red and to whom he now granted a full page with specially posed photographs.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A specially formulated and shaped non-encapsulated solid preparation intended to be placed into a non-rectal orifice of the body, where drug is released, generally for localized effects.
(Insert Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Had it not been for a lugger which I specially hired to smuggle them, I might have been reduced to English tan.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A specially constituted independent review body comprised of medical, scientific and non-scientific members established and designated by an entity to ensure the protection of the rights, safety and well-being of human subjects recruited to participate in biomedical or behavioral research according to the requirements outlined in Title 38, part 16 (same as Title 45, part 46 and Title 21, part 56) of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations.
(Institutional Review Board, NCI Thesaurus)
One thing specially surprised me, and that was, there were no journeyings backward and forward, no visits to Ingram Park: to be sure it was twenty miles off, on the borders of another county; but what was that distance to an ardent lover?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
These infants were most likely to survive if they received specially treated bone marrow from a parent, but did not receive any pre-transplant chemotherapy, which often is administered to help the transplanted cells survive.
(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)
I have been specially invited to be present upon the platform, and to move a vote of thanks to the lecturer.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were points about this strange business which would, I was sure, have specially appealed to him, and the efforts of the police would have been supplemented, or more probably anticipated, by the trained observation and the alert mind of the first criminal agent in Europe.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
