adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. In an emphatic or forcible manner or sense; with emphasis; decidedly, decisively.
1584. Fenner, Def. Ministers (1587), 69. Saying empheticallie, he determined.
1628. Earle, Microcosm., lvi. 152. And then they emphatically rail, and are emphatically beaten.
1663. Cowley, Verses & Ess. (1669), 128.
| The Beggars but a common Fate deplore, | |
| The Rich poor Man’s Emphatically Poor. |
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 147, ¶ 2. I heard the Service read … so emphatically, and so fervently.
1756. Burke, Vind. Nat. Soc., Wks. 1842, I. 9. It is always so; but was here emphatically so.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 258. Striking his cane emphatically on the ground.
1830. Foster, in Life & Corr. (1846), II. 184. The most emphatically evangelical piety.
1871. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), IV. xvii. 58. William the Tyrant, as the local historian emphatically calls him.
† 2. In a pregnant manner, allusively, suggestively. Obs. Cf. EMPHASIS 1.
1658–9. T. Wall, Char. Enemies Ch., 18. Which Samuel does here emphatically insinuate.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 410. He often useth those words also Emphatically, for One only Supreme God.
† 3. In appearance, as opposed to ‘in reality’ or ‘in fact’; cf. EMPHASIS 7. Obs.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. ii. 235. What is delivered of their incurvitie, must … bee taken Emphatically, that is not really but in appearance.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 127. Not emphatically, like the colours in a glass Prisme,… but solidly & genuinly.
1775. in Ash.
