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In a sound manner.

To remove; to put off. [Obs.] She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil. Spenser.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

To beat or thump soundly. Shak.

ove by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly Shak.

To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch." South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.

To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange.

To beat soundly; to thrash. [Obs. or Low] Beau. & Fl.

To beat or flog soundly. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby.

o germinate in modern times. -- To beat to a mummy, to beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.

ences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles. By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect. Earle.

To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written also pummel.]

To beat soundly. [Slang]

Soundly. So sound he slept that naught might him awake. Spenser.

To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. I had swinged him soundly. Shak. And swinges his own vices in his son. C. Dryden.

To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.]

Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious. When clouds appear, wise men put their cloaks. Shak. From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which a…