grosslyadv.

Brit.

/ˈɡrəʊsli/, U.S.

/ˈɡroʊsli/

Etymology: < gross adj. + -ly suffix².

In a gross manner.

†1. Densely, thickly. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [adverb]

grossly1561

spissly1611

thicka1711

compactly1818

densely1832

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 37^v The same..is specially good for them that are grosly stopped in the bladder.

1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 297 When we are about to pronounce T, if the breath goes out very grosly or thick, and as it were by a hole, the Greek Θ is formed..that is the English Th.

†2. In a plain or obvious manner; palpably, plainly, obviously; in plain terms. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adverb]

couthlyc900

sutelichec900

openlyOE

witterlyc1175

kithlya1300

witnessfullyc1374

evidentlya1382

plainlya1382

graithc1394

eberlya1400

express14..

manifest1431

patently1441

manifestlyc1475

evident?1520

grossly1526

apparently1533

clear1550

apparent1565

clearly1569

notoriously1589

plain1590

perspicuously1592

perspectively1598

transparently1617

liquidlya1631

visibly1631

obviously1638

fairly1655

perspiculously1661

remarkably1666

squarely1860

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. vi. 19 I wyll speake grossly because off the infirmitie off youre flesshe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 174 Thine eies See it so grosely showne in thy behauiours, That in their kinde they speake it.

1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 169 He..when he had donne this denyed it in substance as grossely as ever anie did.

1649 H. Hammond Vindic. Addresse 24 This is so grossely true, that 'tis pitty any longer to insist on it.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. ii. 7 You set up Free-will and Power more grossly in terms than I dare do.

1788 in J. W. Fletcher Vindic. Minutes (new ed.) iii. 44 Myriads of witnesses who have heard him preach, and thousands of printed sermons,..will prove it grosly.

3. With terms of depreciative or evil import: Excessively, flagrantly.

a. with adjectives.

ΚΠ

1618 E. Elton Complaint Sanctified Sinner xxii. 414 Some that are grossely ignorant.

1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 514 His ignorance therein was not grosly affected and wilfull.

1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 125 A People, who of all human kind were the most grossly selfish.

1833 S. Hoole Disc. xii. 151 The bulk of mankind are grossly deficient in duty.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 526 A grossly calumnious paper.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. v. 82 An extensive commentary on some melodic ideas not too grossly evident.

b. with verbs.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adverb] > in a strikingly manifest manner

louda1400

loudly1589

grossly1593

signally1598

conspicuously1626

remarkedly1656

staringlya1670

glaringly1709

illustriously1725

noticeably1845

saliently1847

staring1850

blatantly1878

bulgingly1896

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xii. 195 The waightiest exception..is against such kind of Ceremonies, as haue bene so grosly..abused.

1682 Duke of Buckingham Ess. Poetry 14 In many things they grosly fail.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 538 The Earl of Holland..had..grossly deceived him in other undertakings.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. i. 4 Bombast..which Mr. Lock's blind Man would not have grossly erred in likening to the Sound of a Trumpet.

1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1819) XI. 318 The care of the Nabob's education was grossly neglected.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 10 That compact had been grossly violated.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood viii. 52 He insulted me most grossly.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xix. 335 Its size is grossly exaggerated.

†4. Of grinding, pounding, etc.: Coarsely; opposed to finely. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adverb] > with coarse texture

grossly1576

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iv. f. 231^v In which infuse your proper simple..grosely brought to pouder.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 157 Some grinde the Malt some~what groselie.

1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. ii. 75 Strawberry leaves, sorrel, spinage, grossely chopt together.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 103 One pound of Cinnamon grossely beaten.

1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 103 Marcasites of vitriol..grosly pulverised.

1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy ii. ii. 71 Put common black Pepper, grossly bruised, into any open Vessel.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 334 Baked earth, grossly powdered.

†5. Materially; opposed to spiritually. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adverb]

fleshlyc1175

temporallyc1380

materiallya1398

naturallya1513

carnally1527

physically1583

grossly1585

worldwarda1617

terrenelya1638

elementarily1643

crassly1664

tangibly1847

incarnately1856

1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles i. 14 We do not eat his [Christ's] flesh grosly..but he poureth vnto vs by the secret power of his spirit, his force and strength.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 65 Such harmonie is in immortall soules, but whilst this muddy vesture of decay dooth grosly close it in, we cannot heare it.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 235 A spirit I am indeed, But am in that dimension grossely clad, Which from the wombe I did participate.

†a. With want of clear perception, stupidly. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adverb]

sotly1154

blately1513

grossly?1531

dully1533

blockishly1556

bluntly1557

buzzardly1561

sottishly1566

thickly1574

doltishly1580

witlessly1598

stupidiously1600

brainlessly1610

stupidly?1611

insulsely1637

uncleverly1697

numbskully1708

unintelligently1754

stupid?1757

duncishly1826

stockishly1846

sumphishly1850

simple-mindedly1851

obtusely1863

crassly1883

bovinely1900

unperceptively1935

simplistically1939

obtusively1953

dopily1958

gormlessly1958

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. g5 He toke not this worde fyre fore materyall fyre, as they grosselye imagyne.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 218 Some write that Cyprus was so named..of Cyrus,..but grossely: for Cyrus lived sixe hundred yeares after Homer, by whom it was so named.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 89 All the Kings of Christendom Are led so grossely by this medling Priest.

1712 Spectator No. 524. ⁋10 They grossly overlook that which the rules and laws of the place prescribe to them.

†b. Awkwardly, clumsily, unskilfully. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adverb] > clumsily or awkwardly

unhagherlyc1175

unslyly?a1400

roughc1400

unslya1425

rudelyc1425

unhandsomely1545

grosslyc1550

untowardly?1550

botcherly?1566

bungerly1574

lubberlike1575

lumpishly1583

clouterly1593

lubberly1594

foggily1599

awkly1603

unwieldilyc1610

cumbersomely1611

uneasily1611

sinisterly1628

left-handedly1648

ungainlya1661

awkwardly1663

clumsily1691

uncleverly1697

wrong1727

unwieldly1793

gawkily1811

maladroitly1827

undexterously1848

flat-footedly1886

ham-fistedly1964

ham-handedly1964

c1550 Robin Conscience 264 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 243 Yovr clothes uery grossely abovt yov do sit.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F4 Artillerie, sayling, printing, and the like, were grossely managed at the first.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 138 Let them say 'tis grossely done, so it bee fairely done, no matter.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 541 If thou goe to worke grossely with commands.

c. Roughly, sketchily; in a general way, generally, inexactly. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adverb] > indefinitely

indefinitely1471

indeterminably1471

infinitely1530

grossly1537

indeterminately1571

neutrally1571

undeterminately1571

indefinitively1622

vaguely1781

1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. B.vii This alonly I can say grossely and as in a summe.

1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Adumbro Some do suppose that it signifieth, to trycke a thynge, or drawe it grossely, as paynters doo at the begynnyng.

1562 (title) Wigand's De Neutralibus et Mediis..Grossly Englished, Jack of both sides.

a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xxii. 161 Although Alvarez in his storie of Æthiopia haue related..too grossely and boldly..that [etc.].

1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ Introd. 3 Physical Precepts..only grosly inform the Mind, how to..Cure Diseases.

1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 564 Three hours, which is grosly speaking the time of half a tide.

1704 I. Newton Opticks i. ii. 90 I would be understood to speak not philosophically and properly, but grossly, and according to such conceptions as vulgar People..would be apt to frame.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 81 The manner how we know not; or but grosly.

1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 267 The rude speech of a barbarous people, who..were content, as they conceived grossly, to be grossly understood.

1806 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 357 Speaking very generally and grossly.

a. Indelicately, indecently.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [adverb]

unhonestlyc1380

uncomelya1400

unseemlya1400

uncomelilyc1420

unseemlily1483

indecently1589

undecently1589

grossly1600

unseemingly1619

unbeseeming1645

widely1665

indelicately1800

indecorously1818

unbefittingly1871

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > with impropriety

unkindlyc1300

ungoodlyc1380

unhonestlyc1380

indecently1589

undecently1589

grossly1600

unproperly1604

widely1665

like a whore at a christening1706

indelicately1800

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 266 Speake not so grosly .

b. Of eating or drinking: Coarsely, without delicacy or refinement; to a rude excess.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adverb] > eating coarsely

grosslya1549

a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) xiv. 160 They do fede grosly, and they wyll eate magots as fast as we wyll eate comfets.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. iii. 36 Dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly.

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单词	grossly
释义	grosslyadv. Brit. /ˈɡrəʊsli/, U.S. /ˈɡroʊsli/ Etymology: < gross adj. + -ly suffix². In a gross manner. †1. Densely, thickly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [adverb] grossly1561 spissly1611 thicka1711 compactly1818 densely1832 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 37^v The same..is specially good for them that are grosly stopped in the bladder. 1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 297 When we are about to pronounce T, if the breath goes out very grosly or thick, and as it were by a hole, the Greek Θ is formed..that is the English Th. †2. In a plain or obvious manner; palpably, plainly, obviously; in plain terms. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adverb] couthlyc900 sutelichec900 openlyOE witterlyc1175 kithlya1300 witnessfullyc1374 evidentlya1382 plainlya1382 graithc1394 eberlya1400 express14.. manifest1431 patently1441 manifestlyc1475 evident?1520 grossly1526 apparently1533 clear1550 apparent1565 clearly1569 notoriously1589 plain1590 perspicuously1592 perspectively1598 transparently1617 liquidlya1631 visibly1631 obviously1638 fairly1655 perspiculously1661 remarkably1666 squarely1860 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. vi. 19 I wyll speake grossly because off the infirmitie off youre flesshe. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 174 Thine eies See it so grosely showne in thy behauiours, That in their kinde they speake it. View more context for this quotation 1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 169 He..when he had donne this denyed it in substance as grossely as ever anie did. 1649 H. Hammond Vindic. Addresse 24 This is so grossely true, that 'tis pitty any longer to insist on it. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. ii. 7 You set up Free-will and Power more grossly in terms than I dare do. 1788 in J. W. Fletcher Vindic. Minutes (new ed.) iii. 44 Myriads of witnesses who have heard him preach, and thousands of printed sermons,..will prove it grosly. 3. With terms of depreciative or evil import: Excessively, flagrantly. a. with adjectives. ΚΠ 1618 E. Elton Complaint Sanctified Sinner xxii. 414 Some that are grossely ignorant. 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 514 His ignorance therein was not grosly affected and wilfull. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 125 A People, who of all human kind were the most grossly selfish. 1833 S. Hoole Disc. xii. 151 The bulk of mankind are grossly deficient in duty. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 526 A grossly calumnious paper. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. v. 82 An extensive commentary on some melodic ideas not too grossly evident. b. with verbs. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adverb] > in a strikingly manifest manner louda1400 loudly1589 grossly1593 signally1598 conspicuously1626 remarkedly1656 staringlya1670 glaringly1709 illustriously1725 noticeably1845 saliently1847 staring1850 blatantly1878 bulgingly1896 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xii. 195 The waightiest exception..is against such kind of Ceremonies, as haue bene so grosly..abused. 1682 Duke of Buckingham Ess. Poetry 14 In many things they grosly fail. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 538 The Earl of Holland..had..grossly deceived him in other undertakings. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. i. 4 Bombast..which Mr. Lock's blind Man would not have grossly erred in likening to the Sound of a Trumpet. 1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1819) XI. 318 The care of the Nabob's education was grossly neglected. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 10 That compact had been grossly violated. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood viii. 52 He insulted me most grossly. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xix. 335 Its size is grossly exaggerated. †4. Of grinding, pounding, etc.: Coarsely; opposed to finely. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adverb] > with coarse texture grossly1576 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iv. f. 231^v In which infuse your proper simple..grosely brought to pouder. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 157 Some grinde the Malt some~what groselie. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. ii. 75 Strawberry leaves, sorrel, spinage, grossely chopt together. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 103 One pound of Cinnamon grossely beaten. 1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 103 Marcasites of vitriol..grosly pulverised. 1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy ii. ii. 71 Put common black Pepper, grossly bruised, into any open Vessel. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 334 Baked earth, grossly powdered. †5. Materially; opposed to spiritually. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adverb] fleshlyc1175 temporallyc1380 materiallya1398 naturallya1513 carnally1527 physically1583 grossly1585 worldwarda1617 terrenelya1638 elementarily1643 crassly1664 tangibly1847 incarnately1856 1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles i. 14 We do not eat his [Christ's] flesh grosly..but he poureth vnto vs by the secret power of his spirit, his force and strength. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 65 Such harmonie is in immortall soules, but whilst this muddy vesture of decay dooth grosly close it in, we cannot heare it. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 235 A spirit I am indeed, But am in that dimension grossely clad, Which from the wombe I did participate. View more context for this quotation 6. †a. With want of clear perception, stupidly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adverb] sotly1154 blately1513 grossly?1531 dully1533 blockishly1556 bluntly1557 buzzardly1561 sottishly1566 thickly1574 doltishly1580 witlessly1598 stupidiously1600 brainlessly1610 stupidly?1611 insulsely1637 uncleverly1697 numbskully1708 unintelligently1754 stupid?1757 duncishly1826 stockishly1846 sumphishly1850 simple-mindedly1851 obtusely1863 crassly1883 bovinely1900 unperceptively1935 simplistically1939 obtusively1953 dopily1958 gormlessly1958 ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. g5 He toke not this worde fyre fore materyall fyre, as they grosselye imagyne. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 218 Some write that Cyprus was so named..of Cyrus,..but grossely: for Cyrus lived sixe hundred yeares after Homer, by whom it was so named. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 89 All the Kings of Christendom Are led so grossely by this medling Priest. View more context for this quotation 1712 Spectator No. 524. ⁋10 They grossly overlook that which the rules and laws of the place prescribe to them. †b. Awkwardly, clumsily, unskilfully. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adverb] > clumsily or awkwardly unhagherlyc1175 unslyly?a1400 roughc1400 unslya1425 rudelyc1425 unhandsomely1545 grosslyc1550 untowardly?1550 botcherly?1566 bungerly1574 lubberlike1575 lumpishly1583 clouterly1593 lubberly1594 foggily1599 awkly1603 unwieldilyc1610 cumbersomely1611 uneasily1611 sinisterly1628 left-handedly1648 ungainlya1661 awkwardly1663 clumsily1691 uncleverly1697 wrong1727 unwieldly1793 gawkily1811 maladroitly1827 undexterously1848 flat-footedly1886 ham-fistedly1964 ham-handedly1964 c1550 Robin Conscience 264 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 243 Yovr clothes uery grossely abovt yov do sit. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F4 Artillerie, sayling, printing, and the like, were grossely managed at the first. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 138 Let them say 'tis grossely done, so it bee fairely done, no matter. View more context for this quotation 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 541 If thou goe to worke grossely with commands. c. Roughly, sketchily; in a general way, generally, inexactly. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adverb] > indefinitely indefinitely1471 indeterminably1471 infinitely1530 grossly1537 indeterminately1571 neutrally1571 undeterminately1571 indefinitively1622 vaguely1781 1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. B.vii This alonly I can say grossely and as in a summe. 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Adumbro Some do suppose that it signifieth, to trycke a thynge, or drawe it grossely, as paynters doo at the begynnyng. 1562 (title) Wigand's De Neutralibus et Mediis..Grossly Englished, Jack of both sides. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xxii. 161 Although Alvarez in his storie of Æthiopia haue related..too grossely and boldly..that [etc.]. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ Introd. 3 Physical Precepts..only grosly inform the Mind, how to..Cure Diseases. 1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 564 Three hours, which is grosly speaking the time of half a tide. 1704 I. Newton Opticks i. ii. 90 I would be understood to speak not philosophically and properly, but grossly, and according to such conceptions as vulgar People..would be apt to frame. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 81 The manner how we know not; or but grosly. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 267 The rude speech of a barbarous people, who..were content, as they conceived grossly, to be grossly understood. 1806 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 357 Speaking very generally and grossly. 7. a. Indelicately, indecently. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [adverb] unhonestlyc1380 uncomelya1400 unseemlya1400 uncomelilyc1420 unseemlily1483 indecently1589 undecently1589 grossly1600 unseemingly1619 unbeseeming1645 widely1665 indelicately1800 indecorously1818 unbefittingly1871 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > with impropriety unkindlyc1300 ungoodlyc1380 unhonestlyc1380 indecently1589 undecently1589 grossly1600 unproperly1604 widely1665 like a whore at a christening1706 indelicately1800 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 266 Speake not so grosly . View more context for this quotation b. Of eating or drinking: Coarsely, without delicacy or refinement; to a rude excess. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adverb] > eating coarsely grosslya1549 a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) xiv. 160 They do fede grosly, and they wyll eate magots as fast as we wyll eate comfets. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. iii. 36 Dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1526
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