adv. [f. FORCIBLE + -LY2.] In a forcible manner.
1. By or with force; also, against one’s will.
1543. trans. Act 15 Rich. II., c. 2. Any that holdeth suche place forcybly after suche entrye made.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., iv. § 55 (1642), 281. His father was far in love with his wife Glaphyra, and intended to take her from him forceably.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 173. In less than ten years time, canes and shrubs grow on them, and form points and islands, which forcibly shift the bed of the river.
1867. Smiles, Huguenots Eng., ix. (1880), 147. A Roman Catholic relative, however, acting on the authority conferred by the royal edict, of abducting Protestant children, had the girl [Madame de Maintenon] forcibly conveyed to the convent of Ursulines at Niort.
2. With powerful effect, energetically, strongly, vigorously; also, convincingly.
1578. T. Wilcocks, Serm. Pawles, 20. The Spirit of God dothe moste forceably expresse this matter by this word.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy. Turkie, II. xii. 46 b. Working so forcibly with ores, that wee entred into the port.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, II. iii. II. xiii.
| But still this truth more clearly to evince, | |
| Remember how all things are from one light, | |
| It shall thy reason forceably convince | |
| That nought but God destroyes a centrall spright. |
1782. Paine, Lett. Abbé Raynal (1791), 47. Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America and the Alliance with France.
1843. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., I. 214. She reminded me forcibly of the Princess Huncamunca, as I once saw her represented in a barn.
1874. L. Stephen, Hours in Library (1892), II. i. 5. It would be impertinent to say again in feebler language what Carlyle has expressed so forcibly.
