What is "materially"

Usage examples of "materially".

Man has attachment to the soil, both spiritually and materially, possesses beast-of-prey instincts, and shows in his rhythm of sleep and waking the alternating supremacy of the tensionless plant-element in him.

The black tin weighed by the vanner is supposed to correspond in quality with the black tin returned from the floors of the mine for which he is assaying, but this differs materially in different mines with the nature of the gangue.

It was from what they had both said--unluckily their accounts materially differed--that that official description of The Avenger had been worked up--that which described him as being a good-looking, respectable young fellow of twenty-eight, carrying a newspaper parcel.

The farmer understands that if he wishes to materially improve his cows, the first offspring must be begotten by a better, purer breed, and all that follow will be essentially benefited, even if not so well sired.

Hidatsa does not differ materially from that of any of the cognate tribes.

But it must aid them materially when they happen to break obliquely into cracks, or into burrows made by earthworms or larvae.

Alton is endangering his life, or materially impairing his health, I wish it mitigated as far as it can be consistently with his safe detention.

Of his moral virtues, chastity is not the most conspicuous: but the public happiness could not be materially injured by his nine wives or concubines, the various indulgence of meaner or more transient amours, the multitude of his bastards whom he bestowed on the church, and the long celibacy and licentious manners of his daughters, whom the father was suspected of loving with too fond a passion.

They were not molested on their retreat, but the country people considered this as a triumph and victory over them, and it materially assisted in raising the courage of the colonists.

It is true that she taught me nothing new, materially speaking, but a great deal in sighs, in ecstasies, in enjoyments which can have their full development only in a sensitive soul in the sweetest of all moments.

The understanding of life begins with the understanding of physical existence, Onan said, And by physical existence I mean the quality of being materially animated.

It not only cleanses, purifies, regulates, and builds up the system to a healthy standard, and conquers throat, bronchial, and lung complications, when any such exist, but, from its specific effects upon the lining membrane of the nasal passages, it aids materially in restoring the diseased, thickened, or ulcerated membrane to a healthy condition, and thus eradicates the disease.

Georgia and Florida not materially different from that voided in the Bailey Case, were found to be unconstitutional.

They were simply five unexceptional people who emerged from anonymous workingclass backgrounds, strode swiftly across a large stage, and then returned almost instantly to anonymity, none of them materially richer for the experience.

But the tendency to rapid sinking in this substance was in the present instance materially counteracted by the other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it sank very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair chance for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say.