zetetically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From zetetic +‎ -ally.

Adverb[edit]

zetetically (comparative more zetetically, superlative most zetetically)

  1. In a zetetic way; by means of investigation.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section IX:
      It would be somewhat too long a work for this place Zetetically to examine, and positively to prove, what particular kind of motion it is that must be the efficient of Light […].
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