DEADLY

a. adv.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.

2.
a.

Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies. Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly. Shak.

3.
a.

Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.] The image of a deadly man. Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.

4.
adv.

In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. "Deadly pale." Shak.

5.
adv.

In a manner to occasion death; mortally. The groanings of a deadly wounded man. Ezek. xxx. 24.

6.
adv.

In an implacable manner; destructively.

7.
adv.

Extremely. [Obs.] "Deadly weary." Orrery. "So deadly cunning a man." Arbuthnot.

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