adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a virulent manner; with virulence or violence: a. Of actions, language, etc.
1599. Broughton’s Lett., xi. 38. The raising of whose bones, more virulently, then truly, you obiect to this our Apostaticall land.
1607. R. C[arew], trans. Estienne’s World Wond., 274. There was neuer yet controuersie in Christian religion so stoutly, so vehemently, nor so virulently canuased and ventilated.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., II. § 101. Which, it may be, made the other to be the more virulently remembered.
1709. Hearne, Collect. (O. H. S.), II. 306. Sacheverell … levell’d his … Anathemas most virulently against him.
1783. Hailes, Anc. Chr. Ch., ii. 23. The device of forging acts of Pilate, in which Christ was virulently defamed.
1816. Scott, Bl. Dwarf, iv. Sentiments so virulently misanthropic.
1856. Miss Mulock, J. Halifax, xxvi. Catholics were hunted down both by law and by public opinion, as virulently as Protestant nonconformists.
b. Of poisons, diseases, etc.
1632. Massinger & Field, Fatal Dowry, III. i. This potion that hath wrought so virulently!
1858. Copland, Dict. Pract. Med., III. II. 1341/2. The … effects of the malady having become thus virulently contagious.
1867. H. Macmillan, Bible Teach., vi. 112. Though some kinds are virulently poisonous, yet a large number are highly useful to man.
1876. Jrnl. R. Geog. Soc., XLVI. 54. Several are pitted with small-pox, which ranged virulently … about ten years ago.
