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/sˌɛkəndˈɛrəli/ Listen

adverb

Secondarily adv.

In a secondary manner or degree.

Secondly; in the second place. (Obs.) "God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers."

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... character of all God's chastisements: it is the inevitable consequence of sin,—as inevitable as the relation of cause and effect. It results from no special interposition of Providence, but is the natural result of those decrees upon which the whole system of the world is founded; secondarily, however, overruled to work together for good to the penitent sinner, by impressing more deeply on his mind the humbling remembrance of past sin, and leading to a more watchful future avoidance ...

— The Young Lady's Mentor - A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends • A Lady

... are justified in thinking of the pathologist (perhaps I should say the pathological anatomist) as the investigator of disease who is directly concerned with effects rather than with causes, who aims directly at the diseased tissue itself and reasons only secondarily to the causes. His problem is: given a certain disease (if I may be permitted this personified form of expression), to find what tissues of the body are changed by it from the normal ...

— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams

... of his ancestor's rights and obligations, was liable for his debts, and was the proper person to sue for those which were due the estate. By the time of Edward III. this had changed. Debts had ceased to concern the heir except secondarily. The executor took his place both for collection and payment. It is said that even when the heir was bound he could not be sued except in case the ...

— The Common Law • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

... furnished the information. (40) "Am. Antiquarian," March, 1884, p. 99. (41) It may be that no mounds were built for signaling purposes alone. The work of erecting mounds was so great that it is quite likely they were always erected for some other purpose, and used only secondarily for signal purposes. Such is shown to be the case with many of the signal mounds in Ohio. Such is the opinion of Mr. MacLean, who has made extensive researches. (42) Force's "Some Consideration of the Mound Builders," p. 65. (43) Similar effigy mounds have been recently observed in ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

... conviction that the visible and tangible world which interacts with the body is veritable reality. This philosophy is realistic and empirical to an extent entirely determined by its belief concerning being. But while naturalism is only secondarily epistemological, subjectivism and absolute idealism have their very source in the self-examination and the self-criticism of thought. Subjectivism signifies the conviction that the knower cannot escape himself. ...

— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry

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