Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Specially"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Specially \Spe"cial*ly\, adv.
1. In a special manner; particularly; especially. --Chaucer.
2. For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature
is specially summoned.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
specially
adv 1: in a special manner; "a specially arranged dinner" [syn: {especially}]
2: to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common; "he
was particularly fussy about spelling"; "a particularly
gruesome attack"; "under peculiarly tragic circumstances";
"an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the
danger" [syn: {particularly}, {peculiarly}, {especially}]
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