monumentally, adv.
(mɒnjuːˈmɛntəlɪ)
[f. monumental a. + -ly2.]
† 1. a. By means of a monument. Obs. rare—1.
| a 1619 Fletcher, etc. Knt. Malta v. i, Thy memory..in brazen Characters, Shall monumentally be register'd To ages consequent. |
b. As regards monuments.
| 1882–3 M. R. Vincent in Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 2000 Monumentally, the city [Ravenna] falls into the line of ecclesiastical history with the era of the Theodosian family. |
2. By way of a monument or memorial; like a monument.
| 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes i. 2 Like Pauls Scaffolds, Monumentally standing, because none dare take them down. 1705 Penn in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. X. 15, I would have the said county to be marked northerly by trees or stones monumentally. 1891 Harper's Mag. July 275/1 Embodied monumentally in stone. |
3. a. In a ‘monumental’ degree.
| 1888 Lowell in Daily News 26 July 6/3, There is something especially—I might almost use a cant word and say monumentally—interesting in a meeting like this. 1955 Sci. Amer. Oct. 118/2 The authors deserve admiration for their persistence and energy in carrying out a monumentally tedious series of experiments. |
b. In a monumental way (cf. monumental a. 4).
| 1918 E. Pound Let. c Apr. (1971) 134 Frazer has of course done the whole job monumentally, but good god how slowly, in how many volumes. |