1
[ adverb ] (of drugs) through the mouth rather than through injection

Synonyms

by_mouth

Examples

"he was administered the drug orally"

Used in print

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South , implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation .

Related terms

drug oral oral

2
[ adverb ] by spoken rather than written means

Synonyms

by_word_of_mouth

Examples

"these stories were transmitted by word of mouth"

Related terms

oral oral

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