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heavily, adv.|ˈhɛvɪlɪ|
Forms: 1 hefiᵹlíce, hefilíce, hefelíce, 3 hefilike, heui(c)liche, Orm. hefiȝlike, 4 hevyleche, 4–6 hevely, hevyly, -li, 5 Sc. hevaly, hewyly, 5–6 havelie. 6 hevily, Sc. hewilie, 6– heavily.
[OE. hefiᵹlíce adv., from hefiᵹ heavy: see -ly2.]
1. In a heavy manner; with or as with weight, lit. and fig.; ponderously, massively; burdensomely, oppressively.
c1320Cast. Love 1671, I-charged with synne so hevyleche. 1375Barbour Bruce vii. 209 His fut he set Apon his man weill hevaly. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 802 They did sound a long time upon Trumpets, Cornets, and Flutes, very heavily. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. II. 188 This..will light heavilier vpon you then you are aware. 1712Steele Spect. No. 268 ⁋2 A Gentleman leaning upon me, and very heavily. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 150 The horses were too heavily laden to travel fast. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xvii. 57 On the great house of..Eadward his hand fell more heavily. 1886Mrs. Alexander By Woman's Wit I. vii. 207 Mrs. Ruthven did not find time hang heavily on her hands.
2. With heavy, laborious, or dragging movement; laboriously, sluggishly; without elasticity or animation.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 15 Hiᵹ hefelice mid earum ᵹehyrdon. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xvii. (1495) 63 The humour by nyghte meuyth heuyly. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. lix. 101/2 Yf the seruyce be sayd so hauenly [Pynson hauely] & dedely. 1611Bible Exod. xiv. 25 And broke off their charet wheeles, that they draue them heauily. 1697Lond. Gaz. No. 3288/3 The..Fireship sailing very heavily. 1709Steele Tatler No. 72 ⁋6 He read his Discourse..so heavily, and with so little Air of being convinced himself. 1760Milles in Phil. Trans. LI. 538 Burn heavily, leaving a large quantity of brownish ashes. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. lxvii, Breakfast passed very heavily. 1887H. Erroll Ugly Duckling III. vii. 122, ‘I think I'll be off now’, said Lambert getting heavily up.
3. With sorrow, grief, displeasure, or anger; grievously. Obs. or arch.
c1000ælfric Gen. xxi. 11 Abraham þa undernam hefiᵹlice þas word. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 26 Jesus..tok it hevely. 1388― Mark xiv. 4 There weren summe that beren it heuyli with ynne hem silf. 1483Vulgaria abs Terentio 8 a, I fere me lest my fadyr bere heuyly that ȝister⁓day j com not to hym. 1591Spenser Teares Muses 35 [They] Hearing them so heavily lament, Like heavily lamenting from them went. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xiii. §124 Berkley..took this refusal very heavily. 1777Burke Corr. (1844) II. 169 Any mistake or neglect of mine is..heavily taken. 1816Byron Siege Cor. xix, There he sate all heavily.
4. With great force or violence; forcibly, violently; intensely, deeply, strongly; severely.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xxiv. 179 Ða weras mon sceal hefiᵹlecor and stiðlecor læran, and ða wif leohtlecor. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xi. 53 Þa ongunnun..þa ægleawan hefilice him aᵹen standan. c1200Ormin 8236 He wass..Biforr þe Romanisshe king Full hefilike wreȝedd. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 235 It ranyt sa hard and hewyly. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxv. 6 Off Fortoun I complenit hevely. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 95 b, Thei had been hevyly thretened for the tyme of his absence. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. ii. 155 Thou shalt be heauily punished. a1661Fuller Worthies, Northampton (1840) II. 533 Lately the earl of Oxford was heavily fined. 1798Malthus Popul. (1878) 128 Merchants..complain heavily of this inconvenience. 1876Green Stray Stud. 223 The strong tendency to national unity told heavily against judicial inequality.
5. To a large or heavy amount.
1819Scotsman 30 Jan. 40/3 Oatmeal..sold heavily at fully more money. 1847Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VIII. i. 64 Farm-yard manure is used heavily. 1850Ibid. XI. ii. 613, I stock heavily. 1859Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 164, I have..corrected so heavily, as almost to have rewritten it. 1864Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXV. ii. 271 The county is heavily wooded.
6. Comb.: often equivalent to parasynthetic comb. of the adj., as heavily-booted, having heavy boots.
1883A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 131 Trodden by heavily-booted feet. 1883Ld. R. Gower My Remin. II. 79 A large and heavily-veined nose. 1904Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 6/2 This heavily-scented, image-laden atmosphere. 1905Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 8/5 Those heavily-jetted waistbelts. 1906Ibid. 11 June 5/2 A good deal of heavily-jewelled..speech. 1907B. von Hutten Halo i. i, Very long, half-closed, heavily-lashed eyes. 1927A. Conan Doyle Case Bk. S. Holmes xi. 293 A strong, heavily-moustached face and angry eyes.
c1909D. H. Lawrence Collier's Friday Night (1934) i. 9 Then he drags his heavily-shod feet to the door on right. 1938Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 6/3 As the heavily-policed funeral was marched down the street every window was flung open and red flowers showered down. 1961B.S.I. News Feb. 6/1 Fast heavily-trafficked roads. |