deeply, adv.
(diːplɪ)
Also dep-, depe-, diepe-, -lie.
[OE. d{iacu}opl{iacu}ce, déopl{iacu}ce, adv. f. déopl{iacu}c adj., deriv. of déop, deep: see -ly2.]
1. To a great or considerable depth; far downwards, inwards, etc. (See 7.)
| a 1400–50 Alexander 1396 (Dubl. MS.) Þai..Dryves dartez at owr dukez deply þaim wounden. 1573 Tusser Husb. xlviii. (1878) 104 Three poles to a hillock..set deeplie and strong. 1594 Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. i. (1611) 2 Preiudices deepely rooted in the hearts of men. 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. xliv. (1633), They..who have deepliest waded in this sea of simples. 1627 May Lucan vii. 725 All people there Are deeplyer wounded than our age can beare. 1707 Sloane Jamaica I. 96 The leaves were thinner, deeplier, and more regularly cut. a 1717 Parnell Gift of Poetry (R.), I..sink in deep affliction, deeply down. 1845 M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 3 It is a tendency deeply seated in the mind of our age. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 118 The glacier was deeply fissured. |
b. In reference to drinking; also to sighing. (Here other notions than the literal enter in.)
| 1557 N. T. (Genev.) Mark viii. 12 Then he syghed diepely in his spirite. 1695 Ld. Preston Boeth. iv. 176 They deeply tasted of th' infected Bowl. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 610 When the Kids their Dams too deeply drain. 1813 Scott Rokeby i. vi, Deeply he drank, and fiercely fed. |
2. fig. With deep thought, insight, knowledge, etc.; profoundly, thoroughly.
| c 888 K. ælfred Boeth. xxxv. §1 Swa hwa swa wille dioplice spiriᵹan æfter ryhte. c 1000 ælfric Colloquy (Wright's Vocab. 12), Þearle deoplice [þu] spricst. a 1225 Ancr. R. 154 Isaac..uorto þenchen deoplic[h]e souhte onlich stude. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xiii. 144 He preched & spak so depely of Dyvynyty. 1523 Act 14–15 Hen. VIII c. 5 Persons..lerned, and depely studied in Phisicke. 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 329 To search depelier of vnknowen things. 1605 Shakes. Macb. ii. ii. 30 Consider it not so deepely. 1798 Ferriar Illustr. Sterne ii. 35 He was deeply read in Beroalde. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 22, I should like to consider the matter a little more deeply. |
b. With profound craft, subtlety, or cunning.
| 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. iv. 42 Both dissemble deepely their affections. 1617 Fletcher Valentinian v. vi, Either you love too dearly, Or deeply you dissemble. Mod. The plot was deeply laid, but it has been discovered. |
† 3. With deep seriousness, solemnly. Obs.
| c 1300 Havelok 1417 Deplike dede he him swere. a 1400–50 Alexander 1186 Þat me was done many day depely to swere. ? 1503 Plumpton Corr. p. lxiv, And, yf nede be, depely depose afore the Kynge & hys counsell, that yt is matter of trawth. 1513 Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 2881 Charged full depely Theyr offyce to execute. 1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 22 And this I dare most deepely take mine oath on. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 234 'Tis deepely sworne. 1671 H. M. Erasm. Colloq. 401 Even when he had deeply sworn to it. |
4. Gravely, seriously, heavily; esp. in reference to being involved in guilt, liability, obligation, or the like.
| 1382 Wyclif Hos. ix. 9 Thei synneden depely. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 343 F. G. who is so deepely in your bookes of accountes. 1586 Let. Earl Leycester 13 For which I count my selfe the deeplyest bounde to give him my humblest thankes. 1601 R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 17 Henry..left the kingdome deepely indebted. 1621 Sanderson 12 Serm. (1632) 51 And stoutly maintaine Gods truth, when it is deepeliest slandered. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Fryke's Voy. 76 Now the other Buffel was deeply engaged too. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 658 Of all the enemies of the government he was..the most deeply criminal. 1883 Froude Short Stud. IV. i. ix. 103 The archbishop had committed himself so deeply that he could not afford to wait. |
† b. In reference to fines: Heavily. Obs.
| 1631 Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 36 If it had not been that this man hath suffered as he hath I should have sentenced him deepely. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. vii. §20 The Starr-Chamber deeply fined S{supr}. Richard Knightly..for entertaining and receiving the Press Gentelmen. |
5. With deep feeling, emotion, etc.; in a high degree, profoundly, intensely, extremely.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 1673 Sire, þis I depely disire, durst I it neuyn. Ibid. 1698 Summe..depely þam playnt Quat..euill þai suffird. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 111 With them the sayd Pope had bene so depely offended. 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. ii. iii. 14 He straight declin'd, droop'd, tooke it deeply. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 120 They curst him deeply. 1781 Cowper Hope 333 His soul abhors a mercenary thought, And him as deeply who abhors it not. 1851 Dixon W. Penn xv. (1872) 131 All this was deeply interesting to Penn. 1857 Buckle Civiliz. I. xiv. 850 Of these shortcomings I am deeply sensible. |
6. Of physical states or qualities: a. Profoundly, soundly, with complete absorption of the faculties. b. With deep colour, intensely. c. With a deep, grave, or sonorous voice.
| 1632 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 122 Deeply plunged in a profound sleepe. 1695 Blackmore Pr. Arth. iii. 706 Some deeply Red, and others faintly Blue. 1820 Shelley Vision of Sea 77 Smile not, my child, But sleep deeply and sweetly. a 1845 Hood Ruth ii, On her cheek an autumn flush Deeply ripened. 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 948/2 A pack of hounds came..baying deeply. |
7. Comb. Deeply (mostly in sense 1) qualifying a pple. is now usually hyphened when the pple. is used attributively, preceding its n., but not when it follows; as ‘the leaf is deeply serrated’, ‘a deeply-serrated leaf’.
| 1816 J. Scott Visit Paris Pref. 35 Deeply-bottomed bravery. 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxvii. 424 Deeply-rooted popular prejudices. 1865 Howells Venet. Life xix. 295 That deeply-serrated block of steel. 1879 Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 166 Lofty and deeply-receding jambs. |