The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metaphysically \Met`a*phys"ic*al*ly\, adv.
In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician.
--South.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a metaphysical manner. 2 Concerning metaphysics.
WordNet
adv. in a metaphysical manner; "he thinks metaphysically"
Usage examples of "metaphysically".
The efficacy of Evil has to be proved metaphysically, not physically, not socially.
Deity thus metaphysically named was not that personal and capricious, and as it were tangible God in whom they believed, and who alone was within the reach of their rude capacities.
In such cases, the seeker of truth will accept what has clearly been demonstrated to be true by means of rigorous scientific research, while taking care to distinguish such facts from the metaphysically loaded interpretations that scientists may impose upon, and conflate with, those facts.
The fact that there is no one metaphysically privileged description of the universe does not mean that the universe depends on our minds.
With this less metaphysically burdened concept of causality, it becomes perfectly obvious that mental phenomena do act as causes of subsequent mental and physical events.
His mechanical breathing was so disconcerting that the priest felt panicked and metaphysically distressed.
Do we not recognize here an echo of that same metaphysically grounded sense of a coincidence and transcendence of opposites that we have already found symbolized in the figures of Satan in Hell, Christ on the cross, and the moth consumed in the flame?
Cairns knew that if he dwelt on the strangeness of the sight, the feeling of unreality could make him physically nauseous: la nausée, Sartre's old existential insecurity -- Cairns wondered, not for the first time, how the philosopher would have coped with a situation as metaphysically disturbing as this.
If the last Republican was the dumbest person in the history of mankind, at some point it becomes metaphysically impossible for the next Republican to keep being even dumber.
My faerie godmother, the Leanansidhe, has a seriously nasty right hook, metaphysically speaking, and I've even gone up against the least of the Queens of Faerie.
My faerie godmother, the Leanansidhe, has a seriously nasty right hook, metaphysically speaking, and I’.
Time can be viewed either as metaphysically ultimate (process philosophy) or as illusory (philosophy of the manifold).