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▪ I. minutely, a.|ˈmɪnɪtlɪ|
[f. minute n. + -ly1.]
Happening every minute.
1605Shakes. Macb. v. ii. 18 Now do's he feele His secret Murthers sticking on his hands, Now minutely Reuolts vpbraid his Faith-breach. 1658Whole Duty Man xvii. §7 All that we possess is in minutely danger of losing. 1720Humourist 93, I have staid four Hours in Minutely Expectation. 1802Coleridge Lett. (1895) 390 Our minutely conduct towards each other. 1865Even. Exchange 10 Feb. 1/1 The hourly and minutely fluctuations of the..Markets.
▪ II. minutely, adv.1|mɪˈnjuːtlɪ, maɪ-|
[f. minute a. + -ly2.]
1.
†a. Into small pieces (obs.).
b. On a minute scale; with minute subdivision.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 89/2 Contunde all that is to be contundede, & cut the rest minutly, then mixe it to a paeste with good wine. 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Minutely, smally. 1869Phillips Vesuv. x. 279 Realgar occurs minutely but well crystallized.
Comb.1836E. Howard R. Reefer li, The..minutely-sanded beach.
2. In a minute manner, kind, or degree; with great or absolute precision or preciseness; with exactness.
1732Berkeley Alciphr. i. §10 Considering things minutely, and not swallowing them in the gross. 1736Butler Anal. i. v. Wks. 1874 I. 105 Observations of this kind cannot be supposed to hold minutely, and in every case. 1821J. W. Croker Diary 24 Aug., The King went minutely through the museum, and other parts [etc.]. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. vii. 680 He most minutely and learnedly investigated the ancient course of the Exchequer. 1895Ld. Esher in Law Times Rep. LXXIII. 650/1 It is not necessary to disclose minutely and in detail every material fact. 1903T. P.'s Weekly 18 Sept. 495/1 Mr. John Hollingshead has minutely described a little dinner with Dickens.
†b. Intimately. Obs.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 106 The ingredients are more minutely disseminated than can be performed by hand.
▪ III. minutely, adv.2|ˈmɪnɪtlɪ|
[f. minute n.1 + -ly2.]
Every minute, minute by minute.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22 [The red herring]..is the onely vnexhaustible mine that hath rais'd and begot all this, and minutely to riper maturity fosters and cherisheth it. 1637Sanderson Serm. (1681) II. 89 We,..by most unworthy provocations daily and minutely tempt His patience. 1654Hammond Fundamentals viii. 66 As if it were minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. 263 Their frying Blood compells to irrigate Their dry furr'd Tongues, else minutely to Death Obnoxious, dismal Death, th' Effect of Drought. 1803Coleridge Lett. (1895) 439 The sharpshooters were behind exercising minutely. 1807tr. Three Germans II. 52 A friend, whom I now minutely expect at the castle gates. 1845Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life (1880) I. 269 Two daughters..played daily, hourly, minutely..by a very clever, reaching mother, for coronets and a settlement. |