inclusively, adv.
(ɪnˈkluːsɪvlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a way that includes; so as to include or be included. a. By way of comprehension within material limits.
| 1636 Henshaw Horæ Succ. 111 God is inclusively in no place, and yet he is in every place. 1675 Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 458 Repletively [God] is..everywhere, though inclusively nowhere. |
b. By way of comprehension of particulars in a group, or of a part in a whole.
| 1578 Almanack, New Calend. in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (Parker Soc.) 441 An Almanacke, inclusively comprehending, not onely howe to finde the Epact for..xxxii. yeeres to come, but also the Golden number. 1589 Hay any Work 29 Our callings are not onely inclusiuely, but also expressely in the worde. 1658 Osborn K. Jas. Wks. (1673) 475 [It was] maintained that his Majesties Pardon lay inclusively in the Commission he gave him upon his setting out to sea. 1790 Burke Fr. Rev. 88 He [man] abdicates all right to be his own governor. He inclusively..abandons the right of self-defence. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 44 The intention of the agent, wherever it can be independently or inclusively ascertained. |
2. With inclusion of the term or limit mentioned; one or both extremes being included. Cf. inclusive a. 3.
| 1597 Morley Introd. Mus. 70 In reckoning your distances..you vnderstood mee exclusiuely, and I meant inclusiuely. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 247 They were celebrated in Olympus every fifth year inclusively, that is, after the end of every fourth year. a 1661 Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 98 He built the Church of Newberry from the Pulpit westward to the Tower inclusively. 1701 S. Sewall Diary 14 Jan. (1879) II. 31 Singing of the 90th Psalm, from the 8th to the 15th verse inclusively. 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 274 Four small plates of kings from William I. to George I. inclusively. 1805 East's Reports V. 246 The word until..is used indifferently either inclusively or exclusively. |