satisfactually

English

Etymology

Possibly from satisfactual +‎ -ly, although satisfactual is attested significantly later and in different contexts. Alternatively, a nonstandard variant of satisfactorily, especially in non-native speakers' English.

Adverb

satisfactually (comparative more satisfactually, superlative most satisfactually)

1. (nonstandard) In a way that involves satisfaction or makes someone satisfied; satisfactorily, satisfiedly.
   • 1727, The True Key to the Bible, Which Is the Mediator, London: [s.n.], page 15:

     My Anſwer is, that tho' the true God cannot be worſhipped nor known to the Satisfaction of the Soul, under the higheſt reaſonable Ructitude or Sanctification, till the aforeſaid time is commenced; yet there is a new Heart provided, by which the true God is as clearly ſeen, and as ſatisfactually underſtood, and as truly worſhipped as he will be at the Reſtitution of all Things.

   • 1952 December, Alice Whitson Norton, “Christmas Eve In A Toy Shop”, in American Childhood, volume 38, number 4, Springfield, M.A.: Milton Bradley Company, page 28:

     He sets the figurine down, clasps his hand to his breast and smiles satisfactually.

   • 1998, Stopping the Process? Contemporary Views on Art and Exhibitions, Helsinki: Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, →ISBN, page 83:

     Having said this, I have to return now to what is the sort of proposal or the wager implicit in my paper, which is that even if one accepts that during this period (roughly from about 1790 to 1850) the defining forms through which we come to know the art of our own century become fixed and established in all their contradictory plurality, then how is it that we can satisfactually start to analyse them and to see how our historical knowledge of them might be important for present day practice?

   • 2018 May, Tara E. Holm Atkins, Malin C. Öhman, Mikkel Brabrand, “External validation of a decision tree early warning score using only laboratory data: A retrospective review of prospectively collected data”, in European Journal of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 1:

     A complex decision tree analysis led to the development of the score and initial validation at development found the score predicted mortality satisfactually when used as an aggregate score and not calculating absolute mortality risk.