throughly, adv. arch.
(ˈθruːlɪ)
[f. through adv. or adj. + -ly2. See also thoroughly.]
1. Fully, completely, perfectly; = thoroughly 2.
| c 1440 Generydes 346, I prae yow..That ye will..teche hym throughely That att longith to hym to do. 1490 Caxton Eneydos xxviii. 108 Lete vs loke to her wounde, and in her face, yf she is thrughly passed [gone, dead]. 1560 Bible (Genev.) Ps. li. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie. 1563 Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 68 Nocht throuchlie vnderstanding zour doctrine. 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 173, I am enformed throughly of the cause. 1660 Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xi. 78 Throughly kindled Wood-coals. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 264 ¶2 Throughly equipped from Head to Foot. a 1850 Rossetti Dante & Circ. i. (1874) 85 Mine inmost being then feels throughly quit Of anguish. 1885 Dixon Hist. Ch. Eng. III. 451 Hooper..swept his unfortunate garner so throughly. |
2. Through the whole thickness, substance, or extent; through, throughout, all through, quite through. arch., poet.
| 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 18 The kerseyes thereof made cannot be so certenly wroughte as the same..myght kepe any true or just certentye of lenghe or breadeth throughlye. 1577 Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 156 Barleie..steeped in a cesterne..vntill it be throughlie soked. 1603 Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 93 Being thus dried throwlie. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 150 When tis throughly tosted..they eat it. 1677 Moxon Mech. Exerc. i. 10 If it be not throughly welded at the first Heat. 1872 Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 1371 Then with a stronger buffet he clove the helm As throughly as the skull. |
† b. Through, from beginning to end; for the whole length or time; all through. Obs.
| 1563 Foxe A. & M. 807 He was not throughly presente at the Byshoppes sermon. c 1590 Marlowe Faust. vi. 189 Take this book; peruse it throughly. 1692 E. Walker Epictetus' Mor. x, Thou hast but begun The glorious Race, nor hast it throughly run. |