adv. arch. [f. THROUGH adv. or adj. + -LY2. See also THOROUGHLY.]
1. Fully, completely, perfectly; = THOROUGHLY 2.
c. 1440. Generydes, 346. I prae yow … That ye will … teche hym throughely That att longith to hym to do.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xxviii. 108. Lete vs loke to her wounde, and in her face, yf she is thrughly passed [gone, dead].
1560. Bible (Genev.), Ps. li. 2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie.
1563. Winȝet, Four Scoir Thre Quest., Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 63. Nocht throuchlie vnderstanding zour doctrine.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., IV. i. 173. I am enformed throughly of the cause.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys. Mech., xi. 78. Throughly kindled Wood-coals.
1718. Steele, Spect., No. 264, ¶ 2. Throughly equipped from Head to Foot.
a. 1850. Rossetti, Dante & Circle, I. (1874), 85. Mine inmost being then feels throughly quit Of anguish.
1885. Dixon, Hist. Ch. Eng., III. 451. Hooper … swept his unfortunate gamer so throughly.
2. Through the whole thickness, substance, or extent; through, throughout, all through, quite through. arch., poet.
1541. Act 33 Hen. VIII., c. 18. The kerseyes thereof made cannot be so certenly wroughte as the same … myght kepe any true or just certentye of lenghe or breadeth throughlye.
1577. Harrison, England, II. vi. (1877), I. 156. Barleie … steeped in a cesterne … vtill it be throughlie soked.
1603. Owen, Pembrokeshire (1892), 93. Being thus dried throwlie.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 150. When tis throughly tosted … they eat it.
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., i. 10. If it be not throughly welded at the first Heat.
1872. Tennyson, Gareth & Lyn., 1371. Then with a stronger buffet he clove the helm As throughly as the skull.
† b. Through, from beginning to end; for the whole length or time; all through. Obs.
1563. Foxe, A. & M., 807. He was not throughly presente at the Byshoppes sermon.
c. 1590. Marlowe, Faust., vi. 189. Take this book; peruse it throughly.
1692. E. Walker, Epictetus’ Mor., x. Thou hast but begun The glorious Race, nor hast it throughly run.
