autoptically

English

Etymology

From autoptical +‎ -ly.

Adverb

autoptically (not comparable)

1. From one's own observation.

   Synonym: with one's own eyes

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     it would autoptically ſilence that dispute out of which side Eve was framed

Citations

• The OED has a bunch of cites, right up to 2007

References

• “autoptically”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.