-zə̇k(ə)lē, -zēk-, -li adverb
1. : in the manner of metaphysics or of a metaphysician
the assimilation of men to machines, whatever may be thought of it metaphysically , is hardly likely to give us a just standard of values — Bertrand Russell
2. : in the mode of a metaphysical reality or existence
the universal was more real metaphysically , than the particular — John Dewey