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单词 vitally
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vitallyadv.

Brit. /ˈvʌɪtəli/, /ˈvʌɪtl̩i/, U.S. /ˈvaɪdl̩i/
Etymology: < vital adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. In a manner which imparts life or vitality; so as to cause or produce life. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > [adverb]
vitally1661
1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen 78 The Body wherewith she [the Soul] is vitally united.
1664 H. More Apol. 499 What Body more radiant and refulgent then the Sun in his greatest brightness can be vitally organized?
1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxvii. 179 Though that Life be communicated to new Particles of Matter vitally united to the living Plant.
a1791 J. Wesley Serm. lxxx, in 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. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [adverb]
animallyc1600
informatively1656
vitallya1676
orgonotically1942
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 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.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 50 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. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > [adverb] > alive
aliveOE
above ground1613
vitally1692
on deck1889
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 34 Nature may bring forth the young Infants vitally into the World.
4.
a. In a way or to an extent which is vital or absolutely essential; essentially, indispensably.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [adverb]
necessarilyc1443
unlackablyc1449
requisitely1565
undispensablya1676
indispensably1694
essentially1757
indispensibly1768
vitally1770
1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 55 The first franchise of an Englishman, and that on which all the rest vitally depend.
a1797 E. Burke Thoughts on Scarcity (1800) 7 Affairs that vitally concern the agriculture of the kingdom.
1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) i. 11 Due attention would be bestowed on this vitally important matter.
1866 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxxviii, in Monthly Packet July 8 It was vitally necessary to Henry to keep himself respected and feared.
1881 Masson in Macmillan's 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb]
stronglyeOE
felec950
strongeOE
highlyOE
highOE
greatlya1200
stourlya1225
greata1325
dreec1330
deeplya1400
mightya1400
dreichlyc1400
mighty?a1425
sorec1440
mainlyc1450
greatumly1456
madc1487
profoundly1489
stronglya1492
muchwhata1513
shrewlya1529
heapa1547
vengeance?1548
sorely1562
smartlyc1580
mightly1582
mightily1587
violently1601
intensively1604
almightily1612
violent1629
seriously1643
intensely1646
importunately1660
shrewdly1664
gey1686
sadly1738
plenty1775
vitally1787
substantively1795
badly1813
far1814
heavily1819
serious1825
measurably1834
dearly1843
bally1939
majorly1955
sizzlingly1956
majorly1978
fecking1983
1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 187 The effect of this operation was vitally felt by every farmer in America.
5. With life-like or vivid realization; vividly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adverb] > vividly
vitally1865
1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies ii. 156 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > cause of death > [adverb]
deadlyc1050
deathlya1250
fellyc1330
mortallyc1390
à la mort?1536
deadlily1621
lethally1661
mortiferously1685
perishingly1698
deathfully1761
vitally1891
1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The animal was vitally hit or hurt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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