zeteticallyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zetetically_adv%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezetetically, adv.
Revised 2018

zeteticallyadverb

  1. 1665–
    By way of inquiry or investigation.
    1. 1665
      It would be somewhat too long..Zetetically to examine..what particular kind of motion it is.
      R. Hooke, Micrographia ix. 55
    2. 1872
      The life and teachings of Jesus Christ zetetically considered.
      Zetetic July 8/2 (advertisement)
    3. 1960
      All seven articles..stake out (not too zetetically, I hope) ‘common ground’ areas of research between two or more fields of inquiry.
      American Catholic Sociol. Review vol. 21 287
    4. 2016
      A successful search for whether S exists results in our learning zetetically that S exists.
      D. Bronstein, Aristotle on Knowledge & Learning vi. 85

Originally published as part of the entry for zetetic, adj. & n.

zetetically, adv. was revised in June 2018.

zetetically, adv. was last modified in July 2023.