ænigmatically

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ænigmatically (comparative more ænigmatically, superlative most ænigmatically)

  1. Obsolete form of enigmatically.
    • 1824, Pausanias, The Description of Greece, notes on the first Volume, page 237:
      The fact is, that the superior strength and size of the celebrated heroes of antiquity can only be accounted for satisfactorily, by having recourse to that recondite wisdom of the ancients, which was first discovered in the colleges of the Ægyptian priests, and was afterwards delivered ænigmatically by Pythagoras, []