单词 | vitally |
释义 | vitallyadv.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. 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. 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). < adv.1661 |
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