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ˈrigorously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. With rigour or severity.
1375Barbour Bruce iv. 88 To the castell [they] went in hy, And assegit it rygorusly. Ibid. vi. 136 He smat the first sa rygorusly Vith his spere. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 6628 Rygorously to denovnce Hys curse vpon the folkys all Which that in the sentence fall. 1442in Proc. Council Irel. (Rolls) 276 He hath so rigorously entreted your pouere people of your said londe. 1484Caxton Fables of Alfonce xiii, The mayster came to his seruaunt Medius and rygorously sayd to hym [etc.]. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 126 Justice ought to be wayed..By egall measure, all fauour set aside, Not rigorously for..displeasaunce. 1576Fleming Panoplie Epist. 280 Some..plucked their haires up by the rootes most rigorously. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies v. xvii. 374 They did whip themselves rigorously in the maner aforesaid. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 508 It brake his heart, that the queen..rigorously demanded the present payment of some arrears. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. lxiv. VI. 311 The tribute was rigorously collected. 1803Mackintosh Def. Peltier Wks. 1846 III. 295 The horrible consequences of enforcing rigorously principles of law..against political writers. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. x. (1880) 158 The provisions of the Edict of Revocation were rigorously put in force.
b. Without any exception or allowance.
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xiv. iii. (1865) V. 179 As a primary measure, Belleisle keeps those orders of his rigorously secret. 1885Law Times Rep. LIII. 319/2 An ambulance station..from which the public is rigorously excluded. 1891Law Times XCI. 21/2 The City Sittings..must be rigorously protected against the invasion of rubbish of this description.
2. Strictly, scrupulously.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xviii. (1614) 211 Their fast on the 17. of the fourth Moneth for the destruction of their Citie is rigorously kept. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 26 The Fast which the Muscovites very rigorously observe before Christmas. 1750Student I. 48 He is..rigorously just in discharging the duties of his station. 1792Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 23 We must do right, and do it simply and rigorously, and trust to Providence for the rest. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xi, She was too rigorously truthful for benevolent invention. 1866Liddon Div. Our Lord i. (1875) 40 The worship of Christ is rigorously due to Our Lord from all Christians.
3. With severe or close accuracy; exactly.
1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxv. 133 He may interrupt him, and examine his reasons more rigorously. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 394 To speak rigorously, there is no haven in those parts. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 365 They ought always to be defined, the Definitions rigorously kept to. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xlv. 242 When therefore the motion of two bodies..is considered rigorously, the central body should not be regarded as fixed. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sci. xvi. (1840) 152 They have been predicted and computed rigorously by the laws of mechanics. 1879Thomson & Tait Nat. Phil. I. i. 498 A solution which will be more and more nearly rigorously correct the oftener we pass it through the machine.
†4. In literal sense: Stiffly. Obs.—1
c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 45 The extremyteis of his fyngers were so rigorisly contracte in the synowys that he myght vnneith put mete to his moweth. |