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ˈvigorously, adv.
Forms: (see prec.).
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a vigorous manner; with vigour or energy; by means of vigorous action, measures, etc.; actively and strongly.
1375Barbour Bruce iii. 142 Then the king..Strak at the tothir wigorusly,..That at the fyrst strak he him slew. c1440Lovelich Merlin 11378 He..forth wente thorwh the pres vigerously fyhtyng, with-owten les. c1450Merlin x. 155 Thei smyten in a-monge hem so vigorously that oon myght here the crassinge of speres half a myle longe. 1481Caxton Godfrey xvi. 44 The peple of the Royame of Fraunce,..aftir they herde this prechyng, entreprysed so vygorously the werke of our lord,..as ye shal here. 1518H. Watson Hist. Oliver of Castile (Roxb.) M j, They that were within the castell defended them vygorously. 1564Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 306 The Quenis Majestie will sa vigorouslie puneis him..that the West Marchis sall tak exempill thairof. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §69 The Duke [of Buckingham]..being resolv'd to make Peace with Spain, to the end he might more vigorously pursue the War with France. 1685Petty Last Will p. iv, Having vigorously followed my studies..at Utrecht, Leyden, Amsterdam, and Paris. 1709Steele Tatler No. 4 ⁋6 Except more effectual Measures were taken for acting vigorously against the Enemy. 1782A. Monro Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 304 Pronation is performing vigorously. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 67 At the time the leaves are most vigorously performing their functions. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxv. 190, I saw Balmat..thrust his hands into the snow, and commence rubbing them vigorously. 1877A. Brassey Voy. Sunbeam ix. (1878) 148 Cheery looking little dogs, barking vigorously.
b. Intensely, prominently.
1638Junius Paint. Ancients 279 One or other inlightned part of the picture becommeth more vigorously bright.
c. Comb., as vigorously-correct, vigorously disciplined, vigorously-phrased adjs.
1824J. Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) II. 60 There is no one thing more urgently wanted..than a class of vigorously disciplined young scholars. 1867F. H. Ludlow Fleeing to Tarshish 132 A young man of such vigorously-correct habits. 1897Daily News 31 March 8/3 The Lady Mayoress..made a short but vigorously-phrased plea. |