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English Etymology Alternately en -istical adjective suffix + en -ly adverb suffix or en -istic adjective suffix + en -ally adverb suffix. In either case, ultimately en -ist + en -ic + en -al + en -ly. Pronunciation en /ˈɪ.stɪk.li/ /ˈɪ.stɪ.kə.li/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--istically.wav Southern England Suffix en suffix Used to form adverbs describing action in the manner of the root adjective; use is identical irrespective of whether the root adjective ends with en -istic or en -istical. en 1916 Artemes Ward Utting The Judge 377 “It goes without saying,” said McFee, the filled-up philosopher, funistically inclined, “that aside from baseball players and ice men, the professional prophet for profit makes more of it than any other man”. en 2003 Don Michael Randel The Harvard Dictionary of Music 598 Horns, trumpets, and trombones, both soloistically and sectionally, became central to the orchestral concept... His highly subtle orchestration elevates woodwinds, more often scored soloistically than sectionally. Derived terms en en artistically characteristically communistically deistically heuristically inartistically monotheistically pandeistically pantheistically paternalistically polytheistically realistically statistically theistically uncharacteristically unrealistically