thoroughly, adv.
(ˈθʌrəlɪ)
[f. thorough adv. or adj. + -ly2. See also throughly.]
† 1. In a way that penetrates or goes through; right through, quite through. Obs. rare.
With quots. 1633, 1703 cf. throughly adv. 2.
| c 1300 Havelok 680 Godard..lokede on him Þoruth-like, with eyne grim. 1633 W. Mulsho in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 273, I would have gone home (wet thoroughly). 1703 Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 9 Thorowly soaked with the wet. |
2. In a thorough manner or degree; in every part or detail; in all respects; with nothing left undone; fully, completely, wholly, entirely, perfectly.
| 1473 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 66/1 In cas all other things were thoroughly passed and concluded betwixt his Highnes and theym. 1522 More De Quat. Noviss. Wks. 76/2 We know them..yet not so very thorowly as we might peraduenture. 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, ii. i. 202 To looke into this Businesse thorowly. 1643 J. Burroughes Exp. Hosea iv. (1652) 77 This promise is not yet thoroughly fulfilled. 1736 Butler Anal. ii. vi. 224 Whoever will weigh the Matter thoroughly. 1846 Ruskin Mod. Paint. (1851) I. ii. i. vii. §10 The thoroughly great men are those who have done everything thoroughly. 1878 Hutton Scott iii. 35 She had a thoroughly kindly nature. |