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mightily, adv.|ˈmaɪtɪlɪ|
Forms: see mighty a. and -ly2; also 4 mythylyke, 5 mythyle, 7 mitily.
[f. mighty a. + -ly2.]
1. In a mighty manner, with great power or strength; with powerful effect; † also, with great effort, vigorously, vehemently.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxv. §4 Þæt hehste god, ðæt hit eall swa mihtiᵹlice macað. a1300Cursor M. 23551 Sua mightili þair [sc. the saints'] might to fill. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2290 He myntez at hym maȝtyly. c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 262 Another tyme he sholde mightily Conforte him-self, and seyn it was folye. 14..Stockh. Med. MS. ii. 46 in Anglia XVIII. 308 Þat purgyth þe neris mythylyke. c1420Pallad. on Husb. xi. 471 Moue it [the wyne] myghtily [L. vehementer] With reed al grene. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxvii. 95 Eneas made the mariners to rowe myghtyli. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 279 Do as aduersaries do in law, Striue mightily, but eate and drinke as friends. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxii. §4 The power of the word of God..worketh mightily..to their conversion. 1611Bible Jonah iii. 8 Let man and beast..cry mightily vnto God. 1680Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (Camden) I. 237 My Ld Essex mitily opposes this. 1746–7Hervey Medit. & Contempl. (1818) 67 Ye..cry mightily to the Father of your spirits for faith in his dear Son.
†2. So as to be strong or powerful. Obs.
1414Brampton Penit. Ps. (Percy Soc.) 29 My bonys were stronge, and myghtyly made. c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 399 But se that hit be tymbred myghtyly. 1464Paston Lett. II. 160 Arme yowr selve as myghtyly as ye kan ageyn yowr enmyes.
3. In a great degree, to a great extent; greatly, very much. Now somewhat rare; very common in 17–18th c.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 74 Therein thou wrong'st thy Children mightily. 1632Lithgow Trav. ii. 74 [Athens] was after mightily inlarged by Theseus. 1667Pepys Diary 6 Feb., I sat mightily behind, and could see but little. 1711Steele Spect. No. 145 ⁋2 A Gentleman..who deals mightily in Antique Scandal. 1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope (ed. 4) II. xii. 278, I should be mightily obliged to you if you could get me a copy of his verses. 1760Gray Corr. (1843) 204 A carpet mightily finished. 1838Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 13 It amused us mightily. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. 421, I wonder mightily now what sort of a creature I should have turned out. |