What is "secondarily"

Usage examples of "secondarily".

And so Jonathan knows that in choosing his brook for that particular day, he must have regard primarily to the arbutus it will give us and only secondarily to the trout.

It is to be remarked that the spasm affects the mechanism of the respiratory apparatus, the muscles of mastication and deglutition being only secondarily contracted.

What Being has Intellection Primally and What Being has It Secondarily.

Even in the Supermind there is a distinction : there is sometimes a force that tries to realise itself while there is at times a knowledge that tries to be effective, though primarily it is knowledge and secondarily force.

The initial interest was for communications purposes, and secondarily for electrochemical and electro metallurgical work.

The great work of generation is operated, he says, primarily by the action of the Sun, and secondarily by that of the Moon, so that the Sun is the primitive source of this energy, as father and chief of the male gods that form his court.

And just as there is, primarily or secondarily, some form or idea from the monad in each of the successive numbers--the later still participating, though unequally, in the unit--so the series of Beings following upon The First bear, each, some form or idea derived from that source.

Quite secondarily those stages were assigned actual dates of emergence based on available evidence.

Already, he had put that mind to work: first, devising a schedule of operations for the next year or so, and secondarily inventing gadgets to make survival easier.

SECONDARILY you made preparation to save the girl, but PRIMARILY its object was to save yourself, by contenting the Master.

Instead of a proper segregation of the primary polarity, heat-dust (in this case, heat-oxide), the heat remains matter-bound and appears on the surface of the two metals in a secondarily split form as positive and negative electricity.