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personally, adv.|ˈpɜːsənəlɪ|
[f. personal a. + -ly2.]
In a personal manner, capacity, etc.
1. In the way of personal presence or action; in person: = (by) himself, themselves, etc.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. xxxv. (Bodl. MS.), Aboute þe foote of þis mounte þe Hebrues..were worþi to see god in fuyre and in a cloude and to here hym speke personallich. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 7 That they appere personelly at the next general sessions of the peas. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 933 He personally toke his ship at Douer,..and sailed to Calice. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 576 Being very moderate, both in Sleep and Recreations, he did more Personally, than by his Servants and Ministers. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. xiv. (1793) 431 If the servant, going along the street with a torch, by negligence sets fire to a house..he..must himself answer the damage personally. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. vii. 682 The Treasurer acted personally at the Exchequer. 1900F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel 96 History in Scotland is edited, or I may say personally conducted, to this day by Walter Scott.
b. In objective sense, expressing the relation of an action, feeling, etc. to the actual person mentioned: = himself, themselves, etc. (as object of some action, etc.).
1483Caxton Gold Leg. H viij, He shold be punysshed personaly vii fold more. a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 277 To se hyme personally deade. 1684T. Hockin God's Decrees 342 This great truth is confirm'd and more personally applied in answer to S. Peters question. 1722De Foe Plague 94 They had given me a great deal of ill Language too, I mean Personally. 1891Law Times XC. 409/1 The amended writ ought to have been served on them personally.
2. As a person; in the form or character of an individual person.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lii. §3 Christ is..a person divine, because he is personallie the Sonne of God, humane, because he hath reallie the nature of the children of men. Ibid. liv. §5 Christ..is man, but man with whome deitie is personally ioyned. a1729J. Rogers (J.), The converted man is personally the same he was before. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 128 As God the Word, when He took human nature, came into it personally, so that the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in it. Mod. In Christian theology, God is conceived as personally existing and acting.
3. In one's personal capacity; as an individual person (as distinct from others); individually; in oneself; as regards oneself; esp. ‘for myself’, ‘as far as I am concerned’.
1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 226 Howe had, like Baxter, been personally a gainer by the recent change of policy. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. I. i. 128 None of the Tory leaders were personally popular. 1902W. E. Norris Credit of County xxii, Personally I don't despair. 1903R. Ellis Lect. Commonit. Orientius 17 To myself personally the work has a peculiar interest. Mod. Personally I am in favour of the change.
4. Comb. personally conducted, conducted by some one in person: see sense 1.
1884Pall Mall G. 6 Sept. 4/1 Where Mr. Cook has not yet led swarms of personally-conducted tourists. 1892Dobson 18th C. Vignettes 223 A flying visit of..an hour, with a miscellaneous and ‘personally-conducted’ party. |