secondarily affected. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
To a first approximation, then, we can say that what a term secondarily signifies is exactly what it signifies but does not primarily signify. From Wordnik.com. [William of Ockham] Reference
Although redundancy patterns vary in secondarily derived nonstandard codes, their relevance to the evolution of the canonical code is unclear. and from a recent discussion. From Wordnik.com. [ID Research, Look to the Example] Reference
Do you have any updated numbers at this point and kind of secondarily to that, are you guys going to be able to provide sort of an updated order flow on an ongoing basis?. From Wordnik.com. [Clean Energy Fuels CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha] Reference
Each was primarily itself, secondarily all the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Chronic bronchitis may arise secondarily to some other ailment. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Escander, he says, Alexander the Great has the same title secondarily. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850] Reference
The building is primarily a workplace, he says, and secondarily an art space. From Wordnik.com. [Not The Naked City] Reference
Servile fear regards this punishment chiefly, while initial fear regards it secondarily. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
In case pneumonia occurs secondarily, the earliest symptoms are confounded with those of the primary disease. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
If the home exists primarily for the sake of the individual, it exists secondarily for the sake of the state. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Yet now I must add that when once they have fulfilled this prime necessity, they may also write secondarily for the few. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
He is, first of all, a spirit, belonging to the spiritual world, and only secondarily and temporarily a denizen of earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
It is probable that plague is primarily a disease of rats and only secondarily and accidentally, as it were, a disease of man. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
There are some authors whom we think of as bookmen; there are others whom we think of as men first, and as writers secondarily. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
The revenues of the general government are derived chiefly from customs duties and secondarily from miscellaneous minor sources. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
The soul of the man-made horse-power is primarily the horse, and secondarily the small boy who stands by to "cut him up" occasionally. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
There are few diseases of any kind, and of other parts, in which the nervous system does not, primarily or secondarily, become implicated. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
I have tried to show you that pure literature is an art and like other arts depends primarily upon manner and only secondarily upon matter. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
The sun-god acquired his attributes secondarily (and for definite historical reasons) from his parents, who were responsible for his birth. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Hence a Person is primarily and more properly said to assume, but it may be said secondarily that the Nature assumed a nature to Its Person. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
Like opium it is only secondarily a soporific, and to produce this effect it should be given three or four hours before the intended bed-time. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
I believe thoroughly in the possibility of poetic drama at the present day; but it must be drama first and foremost, and poetry only secondarily. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
Reply Obj. 1: The spiritual sense of grace does not reach to the body first and principally, but secondarily and instrumentally, as was said above. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
In general terms it may be said that the ports of the northern coast were pledged primarily to Americans and secondarily to Italians, those of Samana. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
Bay primarily to Italians and secondarily to Americans, and those of the southern coast primarily to French and Belgians and secondarily to Italians. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
Before last week, it was depicted as an enabler of pedophiles, murderers and money launderers, and only secondarily as a way for citizens to protect information. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Love Crypto] Reference
Instead I found Congressman Tancredo to be primarily concerned with the lack of integrity in Dan Maes and secondarily concerned with the state of our public schools. From Wordnik.com. [David Thielen: Tom Tancredo Interview] Reference
It is plainly so in this picture; the man with the wheelbarrow, and his bride engage our attention, while secondarily we note the rough cobbled pavement and the narrow street. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
These posts served primarily to carry the frames for the wall forms and secondarily for holding the forms for the circular wall footing channel as shown by the sketch Fig. 280. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Cossack Post: 4 men in charge of a corporal (usually) primarily to observe and warn; secondarily to keep concealed, and intercept strangers who might be useful to enemy or to us. From Wordnik.com. [Military Instructors Manual] Reference
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