radically (radikali)

1. By root or origin; primitively; originally; naturally. Tho' the Word [ ble ] be radically derived from the Dutch Word, yet it would bear good Sense, and be very pertinent to this Purpose, if we would fetch it from the French Word "ble er," which is to hurt. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 55. These great Orbs thus radically bright. Prior, Solomon, i. 2. In a radical manner; at the origin or root; fundamentally; e entially: as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. The window tax, long condemned by universal consent as a radically bad tax. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, II. 313.