INTERIORLY
Etymology
Adverb
interiorly (comparative more interiorly, superlative most interiorly)
In the interior part; internally; inwardly.
Antonyms
• exteriorly
Source: Wiktionary
In*te"ri*or*ly, adv.
Definition: Internally; inwardly.
INTERIOR
In*te"ri*or, a. Etym: [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf. F.
intérieur. See Inter-, and cf. Intimate.]
1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside;
internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the
interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow
ball.
2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the
interior parts of a region or country. Interior angle (Geom.), an
angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a
polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another
intersecting them; -- called also internal angle.
– Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit of the
earth.
– Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut;
a female screw.
Syn.
– Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.
In*te"ri*or, n.
1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the
inside.
2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom. Department of the
Interior, that department of the government of the United States
which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the
Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a
country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that
country; the home department.
– Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet officer who, in the United
States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition