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motilely en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin mōtus Proto-Indo-European *-elis Proto-Italic *-elis Latin -ilislbor. English -ile English motile Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English motilely From motile + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a motile way; relating to motility.
    • […] I assert that we can live more sustainably with one another through better appreciating the dynamics of life in a critter community where even those who have limited species characteristics in common can become motilely attuned to one another and, in doing so, create practices of communal living that are good for all. 2018, Stephen J. Smith, “Vital Powers: Cultivating a Critter Community”, in Phenomenology & Practice, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, page 17:
    • Swarming and swimming motilities correlated with each other regardless of the clinical origin (p < 0.001), with respiratory tract specimens being the most motilely efficient isolates. 2020, Gloria M. González et al., “Comparative Analysis of Virulence Profiles of Serratia marcescens Isolated from Diverse Clinical Origins in Mexican Patients”, in Surgical Infections, volume 21, number 7, →DOI, →PMID:
    • Psychology, then, constitutes that phase of the scientific enterprise by which we explore and intellectually map the nature of humanity, socially and individually, as a motilely adaptive strain of the natural reality, relative to its function of temporally continuing its existence. 1934, O. O. Norris, “A Preamble to an Organismic Theory of Knowledge”, in Philosophy of Science, volume 1, number 4, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 466: