anagraphically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anagraphic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

anagraphically (not comparable)

  1. Involving or pertaining to anagraphic data.
    • 1969, Joyce Lussu, Freedom has no frontier, page 11:
      The socialists all seemed to me to be old, even those who were anagraphically young, and to be lacking in revolutionary capacity.
    • 1992, Islamochristiana - Volume 18, page 29:
      Even in a restricted group of persons, individualities have the right to manifest themselves; even where anagraphically just one religion is present, there are differences in approaching the same faith and in expressing it in practice.
    • 2011, Raymond Flower, Napoleon to Nasser: The Story of Modern Egypt, →ISBN:
      A bare two per cent of the country—six million acres squeezed between the vast rainless deserts—was capable of sustaining life, and the population was increasing by half a million human beings every year. Anagraphically and ecologically, the prospects were appalling.
  2. Involving the relationship between an ontological entity and its representation in words or symbols.
    • 1992, Douglas Frayne, The Early Dynastic List of Geographical Names, page 20:
      Since there are, in the LGN, a number of examples of the SAR sign with a value , it may be that the place name in the Sippar tablet should be read anagraphically as mú:šim and connected with the 'à-me-šum of the LGN.
    • 1996, Giuseppe Mantovani, Environments: From Everyday To Virtual, →ISBN, page 120:
      The Natasha of War and Peace, who anagraphically does not exist, in the economy of the book and in readers' imaginations is more real than Napoleon.
    • 2014, Barry King, Taking Fame to Market: On the Pre-History and Post-History of Hollywood Stardom, →ISBN:
      Evident in the representation of three of early cinema's most popular stars, this tendency to construct the persona anagraphically - to refer to the self as a token of a transindividual category -- is a common feature of early fan discourse.