artificially

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English artificial 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 artificially From artificial + -ly.

1. In an artificial manner.

   “The actor spoke his lines artificially, with too much intonation.”

   “These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificially been made immune.”

2. By or because of human effort.

   “The chocolate was flavoured artificially.”

   “This lake had been artificially made by the damming up of the stream that had previously wasted itself unornamentally, […]”