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intimately, adv.|ˈɪntɪmətlɪ|
[f. intimate a. + -ly2.]
In an intimate manner.
1. Very deeply or inwardly; In a way that affects one's inmost self or moves the deepest feeling.
1637Bp. Hall Remedy Prophaneness i. §1. 10 We apprehend him [God]..intimately present to us, with us, in us. 1662Sparrow tr. Behme's Rem. Wks., 1st Apol. Balth. Tylcken 8 If some people fearing God, had not intimately..entreated for it, I had not given it to any at all. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 43 When I deeply and intimately consider these things. 1712Steele Spect. No. 290 ⁋2, I shall not act it as I ought, for I shall feel it too intimately to be able to utter it. 1774Goldsm. Grecian Hist. II. 240 Alexander..proved how intimately he was affected with the unhappiness of a prince who deserved a better fate.
2. In a manner involving close acquaintance; so as to be very familiar.
1645Milton Tetrach. ad fin., Lest..they expose them⁓selves rather to be pledg'd up and down by men who intimately know them. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 60 Being intimately acquainted with him, I know the course of his Travels. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. iii, ‘I know her circumstances intimately, ma'am’, said Ralph.
3. In a way that involves or effects a very close connexion or union of parts or elements.
1665Hooke Microgr. 70 By uniting more intimately either with some particular corpuscles..or with all of them. 1722Quincy Lex. Physico-Med. (ed. 2) 11 Thereby the Blood [is] more intimately broken and divided, so that it becomes fitter for the more fluid Secretions. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 129 These two salts are so intimately mixed, as to be in a manner inseparable. 1773Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 V. 134 Lightning..by penetrating intimately the hardest metals..has separated the parts in an instant. 1873Tristram Moab Pref. 1 A country..intimately connected with Jewish history. |