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entirely, a. and adv.|ɛnˈtaɪəlɪ|
Forms: see entire and -ly1, -ly2.
[f. entire a. + -ly.]
†A. adj. (ME. only).
a. Full, complete.
b. Sincere, having integrity. Obs.
14..Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 41 Besechinge you euer with myn enterly hert. 1488Caxton Chast. Goddes Chyld. 10 Yeuing up thankynges with enterly deuocyon. 1497Bp. Alcock Mons Perfect. B iij, Y⊇ very enteerly folowers of Cryste Ihesu.
B. adv.
†1. In an entire state; without diminution or division, as a whole. Obs.
(As in the case of the synonyms whole etc., the adj. would now be used instead of the adv.)
1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 12 Pream., To preserve the possessions of the Crown hoolly and entierly without any severaunce or decreasing therof. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 19 §10 The hole summes..delyverd fully & enterely. 1659Annesley in Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 464 The which was read first intirely, and afterwards, in parts.
2. Wholly, completely, perfectly; without exception or reservation.
c1400Mandeville xii. (1839) 139 Thei kepen entierly the Comaundement. c1430Freemasonry 241 Ȝef that the mayster a prentes have, Enterlyche thenne that he hym teche. 1481Caxton Myrr. iii. x. 155 Adam knewe all the seuen scyences lyberall entyerly without fayllyng of a worde. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 549 And behold all was entirely good. 1706Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 171 He was intirely an Enemy to the Gross Errors of Popery. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxi. 201 His resolution of breaking intirely with the court of Rome. 1769Goldsmith Rom. Hist. (1786) I. 121 He was the son of a man entirely respected by both parties. 1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 66 Another circle of dark rusty brown entirely surrounds the face. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 20, I entirely agree..and accept the definition.
¶ In humorous representations of the speech of Irishmen, often placed at the end of a sentence.
Mod. ‘He's a fine gentleman entirely’.
3. Wholly and exclusively, solely.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. (1843) 4/2 He [Villiers] entirely disposed of all the graces of the king. 1672Cave Prim. Chr. iii. iv. (1673) 331, I shall set down the story intirely out of the Author himself. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 400 If a Gouty Person can bring himself intirely to a Milk Diet. 1833H. Coleridge North. Worthies (1852) I. 16 Middleton composed his life of Cicero, Jortin his life of Erasmus, almost entirely from the epistles of their respective subjects. 1850Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life III. xii. 223 He [Charles Kingsley] did win his own sweet wife entirely by this charm of character.
†4.
a. Heartily, sincerely.
b. Earnestly. Obs.
In the later instances these uses seem to approach or coincide with the still current sense 2.
a.a1340Hampole Psalter vi. 4 Fulhard it is to be turnyd enterly til þe bryghthed and þe pees of godis lyght. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xviii. 142 Loue þyn enemy entyerly · godes heste to ful-fille. 1467Mann. & Househ. Exp. (1841) 172 Ryte worschepeful and my enterly welbeloved frend. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 27 The griefe that by my selfe among many others, for his losse, is entirely conceived. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 228 They are intirely welcome. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 22, I intirely wish..more wisdom to that Plantation. 1711Addison Spect. No. 170 ⁋2 The Apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the Person whom he entirely loves. 1722Journ. through Eng. (ed. 2) I. 131, I that love the Country entirely..have fixt my Residence here [Epsom].
b.a1400Isumbras 434 To Ihesu Criste than prayes he, And enterely hym bysoghte. c1420Chron. Vilod. 1183 Þat þey wolden preyȝe for Alfynes soule enterly. Ibid. 311 He loked þo more entierlocure towarde þat tombe. 1455Paston Lett. No. 230 I. 319 Praying you interlych to bie with me at dyner on Seynt Benett day. 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer 128 Entierly desiryng thy fatherly goodnes. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 32 Gan to highest God entirely pray. 1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Hist. Ivstine 91 a, They intirely besought them..they would now be bould in the ouerthrow. |