Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRIT'IC-AL-LY, adv.

1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment of truth or falsehood, propriety or impropriety; with nice scrutiny; accurately; exactly; as, to examine evidence critically; to observe critically.
2. At the crisis; at the exact time.
3. In a critical situation, place or condition, so as to command the crisis; as, a town critically situated. – Mitford.