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solidly, adv.|ˈsɒlɪdlɪ|
[f. solid a. + -ly2.]
In a solid manner.
1. So as to be fixed or firm; firmly, securely.
c1611Chapman Iliad xiv. comm., Hector..standing it so solidly; for without that consideration, the stone could neuer haue recoild so fiercely. a1700Evelyn Diary 20 Nov. 1644, The stone is..now cracked in many places, but solidly joyn'd. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. i. 279 Who on the altar fixed it [an image] solidly Against the beating of the winds and waves. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bulletin II. 403 The hyposulphite of soda is held pretty solidly by the gelatine.
Comb.1861F. Nightingale Nursing (ed. 2) 42 In the solidly built old houses.
b. transf. or fig. (esp. with found, establish).
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 332 Learned men finding Paræus's doctrine to be solidlie founded upon the trueth of God. 1673S. C. Art of Complaisance vi. 54 This vertue..upon which all the commerce of this life might be very solidly establish'd. a1797Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) I. i. 3 His brother's jealousy was solidly grounded. 1813Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary (1862) II. 445 Now Switzerland can be solidly linked in the connection of independent nations. 1884Kendal Mercury & Times 31 Oct. 4/7 All this..will serve only to weld the followers of Mr. Gladstone more solidly together.
2. With solid or valid arguments or reasons; on solid or good grounds.
Freq. in the 17th cent.
1625–8tr. Camden's Hist. Elizabeth iii. (1688) 289 Their Books were..solidly confuted by Learned men. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 275 Determining it..most solidly and excellently. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 86 The Tast is the only and real Judge to whom it belongs to Judge Solidly, and without appeal, as well of the Maturity, as of the Goodness. 1720Waterland Eight Serm. 275 This appears to be only a groundless surmise, as is largely and solidly proved by..Bp. Bull. 1756Burke Subl. & B. i. xvi, Aristotle has spoken so much and so solidly upon the force of imitation. 1853M. Kelly tr. Gosselin's Power Pope during Mid. Ages II. 167 note, Muratori proves solidly..the antiquity of these copies. 1878E. White Life in Christ ii. xiii. 151 [This] may be solidly inferred from the following premisses.
3. In a real as opposed to a superficial or apparent manner; really, thoroughly, truly.
1625Hart Arraignm. Ur. i. ii. 16 Hippocrates.., not superficially, but solidly learned. 1640Ld. Digby Sp. conc. Trienn. Parl. (1641) 12 Neither the people can be prosperous and secure, nor the King himselfe solidly happy. 1667in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. III. 66 This most sweet childe was solidly vertuous. 1747Chesterfield Lett. (1792) I. cxix. 323, I..sacrificed a thousand real pleasures to it; and made myself solidly uneasy by it. 1823Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 367 In this alliance, Louis, now avowedly, and George, secretly but solidly, were of the contracting parties. 1879H. James Hawthorne 32 Hawthorne's countrymen are solidly proud of him.
4. Seriously, solemnly; earnestly.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 475 The two Iesuits..solidly protested, they were sorry from their heart. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxv. (1674) 83 He heard the Ottoman Emperor speak so solidly of the care which Princes ought to have. 1676O. Heywood Diaries (1883) III. 147 John Butterworth prayed solidly and tenderly. 1788in T. W. Marsh Friends in Surrey & Sussex (1886) vi. 46 [The Friends having] solidly considered the same, are of opinion [etc.]. 1791Boswell Johnson (Oxf. ed.) I. 48 He told me what he read solidly at Oxford was Greek.
5. In a quiet, sedate, or serious way or manner.
1799in T. W. Marsh Friends in Surrey & Sussex (1886) ii. 18 After sitting solidly awhile he stood up and said [etc.]. 1865Daily Telegr. 8 Nov. 4/4 The old complaints were inflammatory; folks lived slowly and solidly.
6. In a body; unanimously. Orig. U.S.
1865Bright in Morn. Star 14 Mar., I was told by a citizen of New York..that in the United States alone 100,000 Irish votes were given, as he expressed, solidly—that is in one mass—for General M‘Clellan. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 133 They [Congress] will vote solidly for repudiation in any form. 1886Manch. Exam. 26 Feb. 5/5 The Roman Catholic and Nationalist elements..being solidly Tory.
Add:7. Continuously; without interruption. (Cf. solid a. 21 d.)
1937W. H. Saumarez Smith Let. 20 Sept. in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 91, I was on tour solidly from the 12th till the 16th. 1943D. Welch Maiden Voyage xvii. 142 Mr Butler talked solidly to the Consul and did not think of leaving until after tea. 1967A. S. Byatt Game xi. 165 She spent the next few weeks solidly working, closed away in the library. 1987M. Ignatieff Russian Album v. 90 He cried solidly for six weeks. |