astigmatically
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From astigmatic + -ally.
Adverb
[edit]astigmatically (comparative more astigmatically, superlative most astigmatically)
- In an astigmatic manner; through or in relation to astigmatism.
- astigmatically corrected lenses; an astigmatically neutral incision
- 1895, George Bernard Shaw, The Sanity of Art[1], New York: B.R. Tucker, published 1908, page 29:
- […] it [the Impressionist movement] set clear-sighted students practising optical distortion, so as to see things myopically and astigmatically;
- 1988, Colin Dexter, chapter 32, in The Riddle of the Third Mile[2], New York: Bantam, page 180:
- His eyes no sooner focused on the time of trains for Oxford than the letters (white) upon their background (black) had leap-frogged astigmatically across his retina, leaving him in dizzied indecision.
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