zootomically, adv.

zootomically
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Revised 2017

# zootomicallyadverb

## Factsheet

### What does the adverb zootomically mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adverb zootomically. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### Where does the adverb zootomically come from?

Earliest known use

1840s

The earliest known use of the adverb zootomically is in the 1840s.

OED's earliest evidence for zootomically is from 1849, in the writing of Richard Owen, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.

### Nearby entries

1. zootheca, n. 1852–
2. zoothecium, n. 1880–
3. zootheism, n. 1879–
4. zootheist, n. 1879–
5. zootheistic, adj. 1879–
6. zoothome, n. 1872–
7. zootic, adj. 1816–
8. zootokon, n. 1661
9. zootomic, adj. 1801–
10. zootomical, adj. 1799–
11. zootomically, adv.1849–
12. zootomist, n. 1663–
13. zootomy, n. 1663–
14. zootoxin, n. 1906–
15. zootrophy, n. 1877–
16. zoot suit, n. 1942–
17. zoot-suited, adj. 1942–
18. zoot-suiter, n. 1942–
19. zooty, adj. 1942–
20. zootype, n. 1883–
21. zootypic, adj. 1853–

## Meaning & use

Now rare and chiefly historical.

1. 1849–
   As regards zootomy.
   Stressed as ˌzooˈtomically.
   1. 1849

      > The investigation of the whole of this vast subject, zootomically.

      R. Owen in Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy & Physiology vol. IV. 873/1
   2. 1890

      > Such being the position of apes as a whole, they are zootomically divisible into a number of more and more subordinate groups.

      Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II. 148/2
   3. 1994

      > He looked (zootomically) as if he had been filleted.

      T. Fischer, Thought Gang 164
   animals historical
   1. zootomically 1849–
      As regards zootomy.
   View in Historical Thesaurus

Originally published as part of the entry for zootomical, adj.

zootomical, adj. was revised in June 2017.