Effectually

adv. [f. as prec. + -LY².]

  1.  a. So as adequately to answer the purpose.

c. 1375.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 385. Ȝif a man schuld do effectualy almes.

1466.  Sir J. Felbrigge, in Paston Lett., 538, II. 255. Yff yt please your gentylnesse to be effectualy my frend.

1576.  Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), Introd. 8. I know not how I may more fitly and effectually commend it than to say, [etc.].

1662.  Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 119. Doing his charity effectually, but with a possible privacy.

1699.  Bentley, Phal., 159. I have already effectually confuted Pausanias’s date of Anaxilas.

1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 98, ¶ 4. An excessive Head-dress may be attacked the most effectually when the Fashion is against it.

1818.  Cruise, Digest, II. 359. Any conveyance by the covenantor … will effectually destroy all contingent uses.

1880.  Haughton, Phys. Geog., v. 205. The equatorial meridian chain has so effectually robbed the eastern Trade Winds of their vapour.

  b.  Theol. See EFFECTUAL 1 b.

1634.  Canne, Necess. Separ. (1849), 225. We have been partakers of the true word and sacraments, and many of us effectually called thereby.

  † 2.  Of entreaties, prayers, etc. (cf. AFFECTUALLY): Earnestly, ardently. Obs.

c. 1440.  Gesta Rom., xxxiii. 352 (Add. MS.). We pray the effectually of one counsaile … and help.

1478.  C. Reynyforth, in Paston Lett., 813, III. 221. Effectually desyryng to here of yowr welfare.

1528.  More, Heresyes, I. Wks. (1557), 167/2. He meruaylous effectually besecheth christen people to agre.

1578.  Chr. Prayers, in Priv. Prayers (1851), 457. Grace to pray effectually.

  † 3.  Pertinently, to the purpose, explicitly. Obs.

1583.  T. Watson, Poems (Arb.), 78. Plainely and effectually set downe, albeit in fewe wordes.

1633.  T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., xiii. 80. Write to mee effectually your Lordships minde.

  † 4.  As the effect of a cause. Obs.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. cxvi. 921. Of him that is one god in substaunce comyth all creatures effectually.

  † 5.  In effect; in fact, in reality. Obs.

c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., cxiii. Mine eye … Seemes seeing, but effectually is out.

1662.  J. Bargrave, Pope Alex. VII. (1867), 18. There arrived … a gentleman traveller … but effectually he was the Pope’s nuntio.

1768.  Sterne, Sent. Journ. (1778), I. 35. Something darken’d the passage…; it was effectually Mons. Dessein.