instrumentally

Variant of instrumental

adjective

  1. serving as a means; helpful (in bringing something about)
  2. of or performed with an instrument or tool
  3. of, performed on, or written for a musical instrument or instruments
  4. of or in keeping with instrumentalism
  5. Gram. designating, of, or in the case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives expressing means or agency

Origin: ME < MFr < ML instrumentalis

noun

  1. a composition for a musical instrument or instruments
  2. Gram.
    1. the instrumental case: this case is expressed by inflection in Old English, Sanskrit, Russian, etc., and in English with the prepositions by or with (Ex.: OE ðȳ spere, “by the spear, with the spear”)
    2. a word or phrase in this case

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