The Collaborative International Dictionary
Analytically \An`a*lyt"ic*al*ly\, adv. In an analytical manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In an analytical manner.
WordNet
adv. by virtue of analysis; "assuming that the distinction is maintained one may ask which is to be analytically prior?"
Usage examples of "analytically".
He was still speaking analytically, like a medically trained cancer victim describing his own terminal symptoms.
Almost everything so far had been pitched to discourage him from thinking analytically, but nonetheless .
Thus, if lead is defined as a nonconducting metal, then the judgment that lead does not conduct electricity is an analytically true judgment.
So, too, if man is defined as a rational animal, the judgment that men have reason is analytically true.
But McLuhan gave us a point from which to view this sensory determinism analytically, a system which includes the sensorium plus analysis of how the sensorium affects consciousness.
And just then she caught a fragment of conversation, someone nearby speaking analytically of a murder in the city.
What we really insist on is this, that philosophical definitions are possible only as expositions of given concepts, mathematical definitions as constructions of concepts, originally framed by ourselves, the former therefore analytically (where completeness is never apodictically certain), the latter synthetically.
It's a feedback system, when I start to think analytically the system cuts out.
Positioned at deck level about twenty meters apart were lamps that flickered and, she thought, sniffing analytically, smelled of some kind of vegetable rather than mineral oil.
This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically.