strongly (strongʻli)

[ That Cyter [Ca ay] is strongliche enhabyted with peple, in so moc he that in on House men maken 10 Housholdes. Mandeville , Travels, p. 209. Fly, fly; delay Doth oft the strongliest founded Plots betray. J. Beaumont , Psyche, i. 44. They say poor suitors have strong breaths; they shall know we have strong arms too. Shak., Cor., i. 1. 61. 18. In com., specifically, firm; favorable to strongman's-weed (strông'manz-wed), n. See intellect, memory, judgment, etc. Divert strong minds to the course of altering things. Shak., Sonnets, cxv. 8. Po e ing moral or mental force; firm in character, knowledge, conviction, influence, or the like; not easily turned, resisted, or refuted: as, a strong candidate; a strong reasoner. Pray that ye may be strong in honesty, As in the use of arms. Fletcher (and another ), False One, iv. 3. They were very diligent, plain, and serious; strong in Scripture, and bold in profe ion. Penn, Rise and Progre of Quakers, i. He wants to show the party that he too can be a " Strong Man" on a pinch. The Nation, XXX. 1. 9. Marked by force or vigor of performance; done, executed, produced, or uttered energetically; effected by earnest action or effort; strenuous; stre ful; urgent. Anthony wered with strong besine e The Erle of Faborugh. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2495. When he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears. Heb. v. 7. The ears of the people they have therefore filled with strong clamour. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, iv. 4. 10. Marked by force of action or movement; vigorously impelled or sent forth; impetuous; violent; vehement: as, a strong wind; strong tides; strong breathing. If, Collatine, thine honour lay in me, From me by strong a ault it is bereft. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 835. When they came to the great river, they were carried the stream being very strong . over by one Ludham,. Winthrop , in New England's Memorial, p. 170, note. 11. Firm in substance or texture; capable of itable: as, a strong market; strong prices; to do a strong busine .-19. In gram., inflected -( a ) as a verb, by a change of the radical vowel instead of by regular syllabic addition: opposed to weak: thus, find ( found ), speak ( spake or spoke, spoken ), strike ( struck, stricken ), and swim ( swam, swum ) are strong verbs; (b) as a noun or an adjective, with fuller retention of older case distinctions: thus, German Buch is called of strong declension, and Held of weak. Strong and weak are purely fanciful terms, introduced by J. Grimm; they belong properly to Germanic words alone, but are occasionally applied to similar phenomena in other languages also. 20. In photog., same as dense, 3. - Strong arm or hand, figuratively, great power or force; forcible or violent means; overpowering vigor; the force of arms: as, hand," Ex. vi. 1. to overcome opposition with a strong arm; "a strong It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand. Raleigh. Strong box, a strongly made case or chest for the preservation of money and other things of great value in small compa .- Strong double refraction, in optics. See re fraction, 1. Strong drink, election, place. See the nouns. Strong faints. See faint, 2.- Strong room, a fire-proof and burglar-proof apartment in which to keep valuables. - Strong water. (a) Distilled spirit of any sort: generally in the plural: as, a draught of strong waters. In the time of our fast, two of our landmen pierced a rundlet of strong water, and stole some of it. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 4. (b) Aqua fortis, or some other strong biting acid. Metals themselves do receive in readily strong -waters; and strong - waters do readily pierce into metals and... [some] strong - waters will touch upon gold, that will not touch upon silver. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 800. =Syn. 2. Sturdy, Stout, etc. (see robust ); hardy, sinewy.3. Potent.-11. Tenacious, tough.-13. Impregnable.-14. Vivid.-15. Pungent, sharp. broken, rent, or destroyed: said of material things. His bones are as strong pieces of bra . Job xl. 18. The graven flowers that wreathe the sword Make not the blade le strong . 12. Solid. strong1 , a.] Strongly; very; exceedingly. [Obsolete except in the slang phrase below.] I will to-morowe go to an Abbey, and feyne me stronge Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 52. sike. IMG:content-2298.png:[blocks in formation] strong2t. An obsolete past participle of string. Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, 1. 16.