internally, adv.
(ɪnˈtɜːnəlɪ)
[f. internal a. + -ly2.]
In an internal manner; inwardly.
1. In, on, or with respect to, the inside or interior (of a country, a house, etc., or esp. of the body).
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 14/1 A wounde, cleansed, as well externallye as internallye. 1660 R. Coke Power & Subj. 71 By which [military discipline] nations are protected from foreign enemies..religion, justice, peace, learning &c. are internally preserved. 1758 Wright in Phil. Trans. L. 598 Salt of steel, taken internally. 1831 R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 267 This muscle..is situated internally of the preceding and above it. 1866 J. G. Murphy Comm. Exod. xxvi. 1 The mansion..consists internally of a pavilion or set of ten curtains. |
2. With respect to the inner nature or relations of anything, esp. the internal affairs of a country, a state, etc.
| 1791 Burke Th. French Aff. Wks. VII. 54 There never was seen so strong a government internally as that of the French municipalities. 1826 Digby Broadst. Hon. (1829) I. i. 251 Foreign enemies..to be prevented from preying upon each internally agitated state. 1864 Bowen Logic iv. 93 A Concept is internally Distinct when we can fully enumerate and clearly distinguish from each other all its original and essential Marks. 1867 Freeman Norm. Conq. I. iii. 105 Such communities..were..internally self-governed from the beginning. |
3. In, or with respect to, the mind or soul; mentally or spiritually.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. iv. 345 That which is internally presented unto the understanding. 1665 Mall Offer F. Help 95 Satan works externally..but lust internally. 1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. xxiv, Would you have me applaud to the world what my heart must internally condemn? 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. vi. (1885) 136, I smiled internally. |
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▸ internally displaced: designating a person forced to flee from home because of war, natural disaster, or other exceptional circumstances, but who remains within his or her home country; chiefly in internally displaced person.
| 1946 Internat. Affairs 22 2 Certain categories of internally displaced Italians..whom the U.N.R.R.A. was authorized in 1944 to deal with in a limited budget; in June 1945, this authorization was expanded to cover Italians found in Germany. 1950 G. Woodridge UNRRA II. vii. ii. 494 Almost all the receiving country missions engaged in some displaced persons activities, assisting either internally displaced persons, returning nationals, or nonnationals found in the country. 1998 National Geographic Oct. 17/1 A refugee must reside outside his own country. Otherwise he is considered ‘internally displaced’. 2001 Time 17 Dec. 33 Today about 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs in relief-work argot) are scattered in camps outside [Herat]. |