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Throughly

Throughly \Through"ly\, adv. Thoroughly. [Obs.]
--Bacon.

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity.
--Ps. li. 2.

To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true?
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
throughly

"fully, completely," mid-15c., from through + -ly (2). Archaic alternative to thoroughly.

Wiktionary
throughly

adv. (context now rare archaic English) thoroughly, completely.

Usage examples of "throughly".

It predated all else, its severe architecture throughly alien and strangely unwelcoming.

The sores should he throughly cleansed with injections of an alkaline solution, after which bandages, moistened with glycerine, may be applied.

By this, your kingHath heard of great Augustus: Caius LuciusWill do's commission throughly: and I thinkHe'll grant the tribute, send the arrearages,Or look upon our Romans, whose remembranceIs yet fresh in their grief.

Thus hauing sayd, his sickely patientsDid gladly hearken to his graue beheast,And kept so well his wise commaundements,That in short space their malady was ceast,And eke the biting of that harmefull BeastWas throughly heal'd.

My foster father gave me all the assistance I needed, and our Hold Harper was a good technician, not very creative,” and Sebell waggled a hand, “but capable of teaching the fundamentals throughly.

Throughly cowed, Neckland backed towards the opening until he was almost out on the little platform above the sails.

He'd studied the Andre Notion's designs-it was the sister ship of the Arrakis-so throughly he could close his eyes and still put anything in place.