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rigidly, adv.|ˈrɪdʒɪdlɪ| [f. rigid a. + -ly2.] 1. In a rigid manner; severely, strictly.
1639Fuller Holy War ii. iv. 47 It is a greater fault rigidly to censure, than to commit a small oversight. 1699Bentley Phal. 468 If we examine this rigidly, the computation cannot be true. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. 461 Covetous Persons are often rigidly just in paying. 1791Boswell Johnson I. 255 Johnson, though he could be rigidly abstemious, was not a temperate man. 1836Thirlwall Greece II. 9 The founder of a government which was, for many centuries after him, rigidly aristocratical. 1859Darwin Origin Spec. iv. 83 He does not rigidly destroy all inferior animals. 1875Ouseley Mus. Form ii. 9 A melody need not be kept rigidly in one key. 2. With material stiffness or rigidity.
1861Holland Less. Life vi. 84 His elevated rectangular elbows cut rigidly against the air on either side. 1863M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer's Greece II. xvi. 144 In the north the mountain masses ascend ever more rigidly. 1871B. Stewart Heat (ed. 2) §34 This axis carries a cross piece A B rigidly attached to it. |