释义 |
strongly, adv.|ˈstrɒŋlɪ| Forms: see strong a. and -ly2. [OE. stranglíce, f. stranglī̆c adj., strong, robust, severe, f. strang strong a.: see -ly1, -ly2. Formerly compared stronglier, -est (OE. stranglicor, -ost, early ME. strangluker, -laker, -est); now with more, most.] 1. In a strong manner. a. Powerfully; with strong effect; forcibly.
c1000ælfric On O.T. (Gr.) 7/7 Dauid..stranglice rixode and bewerode þæt folc wið ða hæðenan leoda. a1225Ancr. R. 218 Sum ancre is þet weneð þet heo schule beon stronglukest iuonded iðe uormeste tweolf moneð þet heo bigon ancre lif, & iðen oðer tweolf þerefter. 1583Babington Commandm. ii. (1590) 74 Our natures are verie prone to the breach hereof, which by a negatiue is stronglier beate downe than by an affirmatiue. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 17 His teares runs downe his beard..: your charm so strongly works 'em That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. 1642D. Rogers Naaman 408 Whether thy lusts can draw thee stronglier then he. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 239 The districts most strongly marked with Breton characteristics. b. So as to resist attack or displacement, firmly, solidly, securely.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. lviii. 443 To ðon ðæt he swa micle stranglicor [L. solidius] arise swa he hefiᵹlicor afeoll. c1175Lamb. Hom. 9 Heo weren strongliche ibunden. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 71 To the end that what I haue shewed you..may the more stronglie sticke to your memorie, here is [etc.]. 1605Shakes. Macb. v. ii. 12 Great Dunsinane he strongly Fortifies. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. iv. 93 It hath its..outer [surface] more rough that it might be stronglyer fastned. 1678Hobbes Decam. viii. 97 Those, whose smallest parts, naturally, without the force of Fire do strongliest cohere, are generally the heaviest. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. i. iii. 42 By this triumph over her enemies, Mary was seated more strongly than ever on the throne. 1856W. Irving Life Washington xcvi. III. 771 The American and British armies, strongly posted,..remained four days grimly regarding each other. c. Violently, vehemently.
a900O.E. Martyrol. 5 May 76 He sæde þæt æᵹhwelce ᵹeare..þær to come þæs strongestan windes yste, ond þæt se swa stronglice hrure on þa circan, þæt [etc.]. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an 1016, Ða ᵹewende se here sona to Lundene & þa burh uton besæton, & hire stranglice wið feaht. a1300Havelok 135 Quanne he hauede þis pleinte maked, Þer after stronglike [he] quaked. 1340Ayenb. 157 Þe dyeuel yziȝþ..þe stat of þe manne..and to huet vice he ys mest bouȝinde..and of þo half him asayleþ stranglakest. 1473J. Warkworth Chron. (Camden) 6 Ther thei faughthe strongly togedere. 1610Fletcher Faithf. Sheph. ii. ii. D 2, But hether am I come..To seeke you out, of whose great good the Aire Is full, and strongly labors. 1642–7H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. liii, Mid part is strongliest rouz'd, the Poles do sleep in rest. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 161 Bear⁓baiting..was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries. d. Boldly, bravely, with fortitude.
c1230Hali Meid. 15, & eauer se þu strongluker stondest aȝain him, se he o tene & o grome wodeluker weorreð. 1382Wyclif Judg. xx. 41 The whiche beforehond feyneden fliȝt, turnede the face strongly withstoden. 1535Coverdale 2 Esdras x. 15 Loke what happeneth vnto y⊇, beare it strongly [Vulg. fortiter fer]. †e. With a strong military force. Obs.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 347 The archb. of Cant...gaue him aduertisement thereof, willing him more stronglier to go or else not to venter. 1587Golding De Mornay xxxi. (1592) 496 The stronglier he had come, the lesse had beene his victorie. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 664/2 The which I knowe doe so stronglie commaund all the passages that waie as that none can passe from Ulster into Connaught, without their leave. † f. With strength of reason. Obs.
1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 14 It sueth moche strongliere, that siche dymes and offringis shulen be withdrawe for these grevousere synnis. 1596Bacon Maxims Com. Law i. (1630) 2 The cause of deprivation, and more strongly of a resignation, moved from the partie himselfe. g. Energetically, resolutely; emphatically.
1533Frith Mirr. Baptism B viij, Now wil I endeuour my self to..vtterly putte out the seconde erroure,..and that is of them whiche so stronglye steke vnto the weke ceremonyes. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 309 Goe we Lords to put in practice that, Which each to other hath so strongly sworne. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. xv. 87 Whoever is accused strongly is never thought intirely innocent. 1680Baxter Cath. Commun. (1684) 35 And what man living hath written stronglier against it, than Dr. Isaac Barrow. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 157 His father had given a reluctant assent to a bill, strongly supported by Falkland. 1861Hughes Tom Brown Oxf. xxxiii, Most of whom would not scruple—as Mr. Brown strongly put it—to steal a copper out of a blind beggar's hat. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 183/2 We therefore strongly urge the student to work from the examples. †h. In various obsolete uses: (to sleep) soundly; (to eat) heartily; (to gaze, etc.) intently; (to sound) loudly. Obs.
c1450Merlin xx. 323 And thei slepte strongeliche in the hoste ffor the tyme that relented. 1470–85Malory Arthur vi. xi. 201 Soo whan sir kay was vnarmed he asked after mete; soo there was mete sette hym, and he ete strongly. 1485Caxton Paris & V. 87 Vyenne byhelde the rynge so strongely. 1600Surflet Country Farm ii. lxv. 409 By howe much you sound the stronglier, by so much they [sc. bees] mount the higher into the aire. 1675–7Warwick Mem. Chas. I (1701) 98 The eyes of the Nobility and Gentry being stronglyer fixt upon the Church-lands. i. Physics. By means of the strong interaction (see strong a. 10 e).
1960P. Roman Theory Elementary Particles v. 460 The K-, but not the K+, can react strongly with nuclear matter. 1977Sci. Amer. Oct. 58/2 A strongly decaying hadron exists for only 10-23 second before it breaks up into less massive hadrons. 2. In a strong degree; with strength or intensity of the condition or quality predicated. a. Qualifying a verb expressing a state or condition, emotion, belief, resemblance, or difference.
c1400Brut 294 Wherfore þe King, whan he herde of þis tydinge, he was stronglyche meued and þerwiþ an angred. c1450Merlin i. 13 When the gode man herde this he merveyled strongeleche. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. vii. (1562) 108 b, The more that they hold back themselues, so much y⊇ stronglier within they are kindled. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 113 The Theeues are scattred, and possest with fear so strongly, that they dare not meet each other. 1650Baxter Saints' R. ii. iii. §1 (1653) 207 The stronger any mans Reason is, the stronglier is he perswaded that God is true. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T., Forester xii, He was so strongly charmed by the sight of a watch-chain and seals, that [etc.]. 1818Accum Chem. Tests 286 Heat the mixture strongly over a lamp, till a dry red mass is obtained. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 659 It was strongly suspected that he had been in constant communication with the government. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. i. iii. (1872) I. 28 In his Portraits as Prince-Royal, he strongly resembles her. b. Qualifying an adj.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. ii. 278 b/2 A broder febled by sekenes sayd..that he was strongly seke [Fr. q'il estoit fort malade]. 1798Ferriar Engl. Historians 244 Superstition is strongly imitative. 1861J. Tulloch Engl. Purit. ii. 288 As we read it,..the ardour of local Puritanism becomes strongly intelligible. 1880Geikie Phys. Geog. iii. 116 Sea⁓water is always strongly salt to the taste. (b) spec. in Math.: cf. strong a. 19 e.
1955M. Loève Probability Theory ix. 442 Since..T is bounded and linear, every Bλ is..a strongly closed linear subspace of B. 1966E. H. Spanier Algebraic Topology ix. 510 Let X be a strongly simple space. 1979Proc. London Math. Soc. XXXVIII. 507, K is said to be a spectral compact convex set if A and V are in spectral duality, and K is said to be strongly spectral if in addition [etc.]. 3. Comb. With ppl. adjs., as strongly-bound, strongly-drawing, strongly-made, strongly-marked, strongly-scented, strongly-shod, strongly-worded; also occas. with adjs. in -ed2, forming combs. used as equivalent to parasynthetic formations on strong a., as † strongly-limbed, † strongly necked, † strongly opinioned.
1890Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip XXVI. 155/2 The *strongly-bound and neatly got-up volumes of the Geological Survey of the United States.
1611Cotgr., Rubrificatif,..a plaister of..*strongly-drawing simples.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handicr. 315 Wise, active, valiant, *strongly-limb'd, and healthy.
1838Dickens O. Twist xlvi, He is tall,..and a *strongly made man.
1820Scott Monast. xix, Traits which were rather *strongly marked than beautiful. 1892Rev. of Reviews Apr. 332/2 Both were men of strongly-marked individuality.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 88 The Mother Cow must wear a low'ring Look, Sour-headed, *strongly-neck'd, to bear the Yoke.
1615T. Adams Black Devil 38 This is Satans first presumption; a *strongly-opinion'd trust in his owne strength.
1879Lubbock Sci. Lect. ii. 64 The larva of Papilio machaon is..provided with *strongly-scented tentacles.
1831Scott Ct. Rob. ii, A..*strongly-shod arrow.
1883Manch. Exam. 30 Nov. 5/1 At a meeting held in the evening a *strongly-worded letter on the subject was read from Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P. |