adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an arduous manner, with difficulty, laboriously, strenuously.
1753. Miss Collier, Art Torment., 188–9. Arduously endeavouring to shew that these our precepts [etc.].
1858. Froude, Hist. Eng., IV. xviii. 55. The work of fusion was accomplished at last, though painfully and arduously.
