artificially

English

Etymology

From artificial +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

artificially (comparative more artificially, superlative most artificially)

  1. In an artificial manner.
    The actor spoke his lines artificially, with too much intonation.
    • 1895, Frantz Peckel Möller, Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry, page 442:
      These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificially been made immune.
  2. By or because of human effort.
    The chocolate was flavoured artificially.
    • 1926, E. F. Benson, Peter:
      This lake had been artificially made by the damming up of the stream that had previously wasted itself unornamentally, […]
    • 2019 August 6, “Scientists create the world's thinnest gold”, in Phys.org‎[1], archived from the original on 6 July 2024, page 5:
      Images taken from an electron microscope reveal the way the gold atoms have formed into a highly organised lattice. Other images show gold nanoseaweed that has been artificially coloured.

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