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vitally, adv.|ˈvaɪtəlɪ|
[f. vital a. + -ly2.]
†1. In a manner which imparts life or vitality; so as to cause or produce life. Obs.
1661Rust Origen & Opin. 78 The Body wherewith she [the Soul] is vitally united. 1664H. More Apology 499 What Body more radiant and refulgent then the Sun in his greatest brightness can be vitally organized? 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxvii. §4 Though that Life be communicated to new Particles of Matter vitally united to the living Plant. a1791Wesley Serm. lxxx. Wks. 1811 IX. 395 You are not now vitally united to any of the members of Christ.
†2. By means of vital force or power. Obs. rare.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. ii. (1677) 50 The Mixt sort of Reason seems to be when a thing concurrs actively and from an internal principle, and (in things that have life) vitally, to the production of a reasonable effect. Ibid., This reasonable work [of ploughing] is performed actively and vitally by my Brute in the virtue of my direction.
†3. In a living state; alive. Obs.—1
1692Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 174 Nature may bring forth the young infants vitally into the world.
4. In a way or to an extent which is vital or absolutely essential; essentially, indispensably.
1770Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. II. 303 The first franchise of an Englishman, and that on which all the rest vitally depend. 1795― Scarcity Wks. VII. 381 Affairs that vitally concern the agriculture of the kingdom. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos II. xxxi. 325 It was vitally necessary to Henry to keep himself respected and feared. 1861F. Nightingale Nursing ii. (ed. 2) 11 Due attention would be bestowed on this vitally important matter. 1881Masson in Macm. Mag. Dec. 150/1 His Edinburgh life during those five years divides itself, however, very vitally, in the retrospect of it now, into two portions.
b. In an important or high degree; intensely, powerfully. rare.
1787Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 187 The effect of this operation was vitally felt by every farmer in America.
5. With life-like or vivid realization; vividly.
1865Ruskin Sesame ii. §72 She should be taught to enter with her whole personality into the history she reads; to picture the passages of it vitally in her own bright imagination.
6. So as to affect or destroy life; fatally, mortally.
1891Cent. Dict. s.v., The animal was vitally hit or hurt. |