mightily

adv

1. (literary)In a mighty manner.

   “The chivalrous knights entered the lists and fought mightily.”

   “So cry Hand & Hyle the eldest of the fathers of Albions / Little-ones; to destroy the Divine Saviour: the Friend of Sinners. / Building Castles in desolated places, and strong Fortifications. / Soon Hand mightily devour'd & absorb'd Albions Twelve Sons.”

   “[A] spirit as of prophecy had come upon him, constraining him to its purpose as mightily as the old prophets of Israel were constrained; […]”

   “And Bagdemagus's son Meliganus brake a spear upon Sir Gareth mightily and knightly.”

   “But they were silent in amazement and expectation when they saw the mighty white ape wriggle upon the back of their king, and with steel muscles tensed beneath the armpits of his antagonist, bear down mightily with his open palms upon the back of the thick bull-neck, so that the king ape could but shriek in agony and flounder helplessly about upon the thick mat of jungle grass.”

2. In a mighty manner.

   “Sir, I ſhal not be ſlacke, in ſigne vvhereof / Pleaſe ye vve may contriue this afternoone, / And quaffe carovvſes to our Miſtreſſe health, / And do as aduerſaries do in lavv, / Striue mightily, but eate and drinke as friends.”

   “But let man and beaſt be couered with ſackecloth, and cry mightily vnto God: yea, let them turne euery one from his euill way, and from the violence that is in their hands.”

   “I wonder mightily now what sort of a creature I should have turned out, if at this time Love had been with me instead of against me; […]”

   “The Supreme Court tried mightily to come together. […] But in the end came a familiar conservative–liberal split on the last, and perhaps most-watched case of the term ending this week.”

3. In a mighty manner.

   “[A]lthough he vvas a man mightely friended, yet vvas he by a publike decree baniſhed into one of the Abſyrtides, iſlan ds vpon the coaſt of Libvrnia.”

   “Time, O mighty and mightily peopled city, / Time is busy with thee.”

4. (informal)In a mighty manner.

   “He sounded mightily proud of himself.”

   “Therein thou vvrong'ſt thy Children mightily.”

   “I [Aye], truely, ſir, I am mightily giuen to melancholy.”

   “[I]t is prooued my Lady Hero hath bin falſely accuſde, the Prince [Don Pedro] and Claudio mightily abuſde, and Don Iohn is the author of all, vvho is fled and gone: […]”

   “[…] I to the Duke of York's playhouse; […] I sat mightily behind, and could see but little, and hear not all.”

5. (obsolete)In a mighty manner.

   “[T]his group of the lion and the man [a sculpture] now bear an unfinished, unwrought appearance, but you cannot look at it a moment, and not instantly avow the majesty and grandeur of the idea that once lay there so mightily embodied.”

   “O, mightily seated and / Throned are our masters, / And steadily rooted; […]”