adv. [f. FIERY a. + -LY2.] In a fiery manner.
1. With the appearance or color of fire.
1824. trans. Hoffmann’s The Devil’s Elixir, I. 75. I hastened down into the monastery gardens to bask in the warm splendour of the rising sun, which now ascended fieryly, and glowing red from behind the mountains.
a. 1849. J. C. Mangan, trans. Schiller, The Hostage, Poems (1859), 69.
| He turns him, he searches, and lo! a pure stream | |
| Ripples forth from a rock, and shines out in the beam | |
| Of the sun ere he fierily sinks, | |
| And the wanderer bathes his hot limbs, and he drinks. |
1885. G. Meredith, Diana, III. xv. 304. Her musings on him then, with the contrast of her position toward him now, fierily brushed her cheeks.
2. With ardour; ardently, eagerly, passionately.
1600. Abp. Abbot, An Exposition upon the Prophet Jonah (1613), 37. The Prophet, that so firily is set, and so hotely enflamed to run from his dutie.
1825. Blackw. Mag., XVIII. Oct., 448.
| And long, and eagerly, and fierily | |
| I gazed, and love grew in me; while that fear | |
| Which ices boldest hearts in fleshless presences | |
| Could not allay this feverish frenzy, which | |
| Is thus part of me ever. |
1880. G. Meredith, Trag. Com., viii. (1892), 112. He lived with the pulses of the minutes, much as she did, only more fierily.
