effectually, adv.
(ɛˈfɛktjʊəlɪ)
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
1. a. So as adequately to answer the purpose.
| c 1375 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 385 Ȝif a man schuld do effectualy almes. 1466 Sir J. Felbrigge in Paston Lett. 538 II. 255 Yff yt please your gentylnesse to be effectualy my frend. 1576 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) Introd. 8, I know not how I may more fitly and effectually commend it than to say, etc. 1662 Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 119 Doing his charity effectually, but with a possible privacy. 1699 Bentley Phal. 159, I have already effectually confuted Pausanias's date of Anaxilas. 1711 Addison Spect. No. 98 ¶4 An excessive Head-dress may be attacked the most effectually when the Fashion is against it. 1818 Cruise Digest II. 359 Any conveyance by the covenantor..will effectually destroy all contingent uses. 1880 Haughton Phys. Geog. v. 205 The equatorial meridian chain has so effectually robbed the eastern Trade Winds of their vapour. |
b. Theol. See effectual 1 b.
| 1634 Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 225 We have been partakers of the true word and sacraments, and many of us effectually called thereby. |
† 2. Of entreaties, prayers, etc. (cf. affectually): Earnestly, ardently. Obs.
| c 1440 Gesta Rom. xxxiii. 352 (Add. MS.) We pray the effectually of one counsaile..and help. 1478 C. Reynforth in Paston Lett. 813 III. 221 Effectually desyryng to here of yowr welfare. 1528 More Heresyes i. Wks. (1557) 167/2 He meruaylous effectually besecheth christen people to agre. 1578 Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 457 Grace to pray effectually. |
† 3. Pertinently, to the purpose, explicitly. Obs.
| 1583 T. Watson Poems (Arb.) 78 Plainely and effectually set downe, albeit in fewe wordes. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. xiii. 146 Write to me effectually your Lordships mind. |
† 4. As the effect of a cause. Obs.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxvi. 921 Of him that is one god in substaunce comyth all creatures effectually. |
† 5. In effect; in fact, in reality. Obs.
| c 1600 Shakes. Sonn. cxiii, Mine eye..Seemes seeing, but effectually is out. 1662 J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 18 There arrived..a gentleman traveller..but effectually he was the Pope's nuntio. 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) I. 35 Something darken'd the passage..it was effectually Mons. Dessein. |