astigmatically

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Etymology[edit]

astigmatic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

astigmatically (comparative more astigmatically, superlative most astigmatically)

  1. 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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