adv. [f. VIVID a. + -LY2.]
1. Brightly, brilliantly, in respect of color or light.
1667. Boyle, in Phil. Trans., II. 587. I … found it to shine vividly.
1815. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 220. The light is still seen, but not so vividly.
1842. Johnston, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 36. The shell is strongly ribbed and rather vividly streaked … with yellow or red.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., II. vi. 255. While the former semicircle remains white, the latter one is vividly coloured.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 103. It bursts suddenly into flame and burns vividly.
2. Clearly, strongly, intensely, in respect of mental impression or effect.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. Prov. iv. 23, Wks. 1686, III. 46. He will not be so forward to engage himself upon such occasions; danger and mischief being so vividly pre-represented to his sight.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. iii. § 5. 385. If they rise up quick and vividly one after another, as Subjects, Predicates, and other Associates use to do.
1832. R. & J. Lander, Exped. Niger, III. xviii. 142. Oh how vividly did early impressions return to my soul.
1862. M‘Cosh, Supernat. in relat. to Natural, II. i. § 4. 159. The word seraphic, so often applied, is vividly descriptive of the flights of Isaiah as he soars upward into his native sphere above.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1877), II. viii. 287. The way in which treason is spoken of sets vividly before us the difficulties with which William had still to contend.
