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==English==
{{was wotd|2021|November|3}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈɡɹaʊndli/|a=RP,GA}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-groundly.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{hyphenation|en|ground|ly}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*gʰrem-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|groundli}}, {{m|enm|growndly}}, {{m|enm|grundlich|t=firm, solid; deep, profound; fundamental, radical; of a person: learned, well-grounded}}{{nb...|groundely, grundelich, grundlich, grundelike, grundlike|otherforms=1}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=grǒundlī|pos=adj|id=MED19613}}</ref> from {{m|enm|ground|t=surface of the earth on which one stands; earth, soil; burial site; field of battle, battleground; dry land; flat land; piece of land; region; country; the earth; lowest part, base, bottom; foundation; platform; basis for a doctrine, opinion, etc.; fundamental principle; source; background (of a painting, etc.)}}<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=grǒund|pos=n|id=MED19601}}</ref> (from {{inh|en|ang|grund|t=ground; bottom, foundation; abyss}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*grunduz|t=ground; foundation}}, from {{inh|en|ine-pro|*gʰrem-|t=to resound; to grumble, roar, thunder}}) + {{m|enm|-li|pos={{glossary|suffix}} forming {{glossary|adjective}}s}}.<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=-lī|pos=''suf.''(1)|noformat=1|id=MED25367}}</ref> The English word is analysable as {{suffix|en|ground|ly|pos2=suffix forming adjectives|id2=adjectival}}, and is cognate with {{cog|de|gründlich|t=careful, thorough; deep, profound}}, {{cog|sv|grundlig|t=thorough; in depth; profound; radical}}.<ref>{{R:OED Online|entry=† groundly|pos=adj|id=81831|date=December 2020}}</ref>

====Adjective====
{{en-adj}}

# {{lb|en|archaic|rare}} [[firmly|Firmly]] [[grounded#Adjective|grounded]]; [[solid#Adjective|solid]]; of [[education]]: [[complete]], [[thorough]], [[well-grounded]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Robert Fabyan|chapter=[Pars Sexta.] Capitulum C.lx.iii.|editor=[[w:Henry Ellis (librarian)|Henry Ellis]]|title=The New Chronicles of England and France,{{nb...|in Two Parts; by Robert Fabyan. Named by Himself the Concordance of Histories. Reprinted from [Richard] Pynson’s Edition of 1516. The First Part Collated with the Editions of 1533, 1549, and 1559; and the Second with a Manuscript of the Author’s Own Time, as well as the Subsequent Editions: Including the Different Continuations. To which are Added a Biographical and Literary Preface, and an Index, by Henry Ellis.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed [by]}} &#91;{{w|George Woodfall}}&#93; for [[w:Rivington (publishers)|F. C. and J. Rivington]];{{nb...|T. Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Co.; Cadell and Davies; J. Mawman; and J. Johnson and Co.}}|year=1516|year_published=1811|page=156|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rdPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA156|oclc=879723253|passage=[A]fter. iiii. yeres was passyd, the sayd two bretherne &#91;{{w|Lothair I}} and {{w|Louis the German}}&#93;, withoute defyaunce or '''groundly''' cause of warre, assigned or assemblyd a great hoost, such lyke before this daye had not ben seen, and entryd the lymyttys of kynge Charlys &#91;{{w|Charles the Bald}}&#93;.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Thomas Wolsey|chapter=LXXIX. Wosley to [[w:Richard Sampson|[Richard] Sampson]], &c.|title=State Papers Published under the Authority of Her Majesty’s Commission|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} [[w:Eyre & Spottiswoode|George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode]],{{nb...|printers to the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty.}}|year='''1524''' February 3 (Gregorian calendar)|year_published=1849|volume=VI (King [[w:Henry VIII|Henry the Eighth]]. Part V.)|page=242|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=zH1WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA242|oclc=614600781|passage=[I]t was therfore thought unto the Kings Highnes and his Counsail expedient, bifore the depeche of this post, to have a mature and '''groundly''' consultacion, by deliberate advice, for the more perfite instruccion to be geven unto you in al suche thinges as may occurre and chaunce touching the said commyn matiers; {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=[[w:Henry Nicholis|Henrich Niclaes]]—The Family of Love|editor=J. Ph. Berjeau|magazine=The Book-worm: An Illustrated Literary & Bibliographical Review|location=London|publisher=At the Office,{{nb...|4 Brydges Street, Covent Garden, W.C.}}|month=June|year=1869|issue=VI (New Series)|page=90|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=yB7hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA90|oclc=265247075|passage=10{{sup|b}}–20{{sup|a}} is occupied by No. 3: A '''groundly''' Inſtruction, wherin the difference betwixt God the Father, and his Son the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, is declared, according to the ſpirituall and heavenly underſtanding.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Arleen Pabón|chapter=''Por La Encendida Calle Antillana'': African Impact on Puerto Rican Domestic Architecture|title=Places of Cultural Memory: African Reflections on the American Landscape: Conference Proceedings, May 9–12, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia|location=[Washington, D.C.]|publisher={{w|National Park Service}}, [[w:United States Department of the Interior|U.S. Department of the Interior]]|year=2001|page=141|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=RrIVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA141|columns=1–2|oclc=1183430493|passage=[W]e construct binaries, such as: male/female, Black/White, being/not being, presence/absence, among others as [[w:Jacques Derrida|[Jacques] Derrida]] has masterfully explained, these binary opposition favor the "'''groundly'''" term, the one that supposedly articulates the fundamentals. Hence, woman is everything a man is not.}}

=====Alternative forms=====
* {{l|en|groundley}} {{qualifier|obsolete}}
* {{l|en|groundlie}} {{qualifier|obsolete}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-see|firmly grounded|firm|solid}}
{{trans-see|of education: complete, thorough|well-grounded}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|groundli}}, {{m|enm|groundly}}, {{m|enm|grundliche|t=strongly, vehemently, violently; completely, fully, thoroughly; basically, fundamentally}}{{nb...|groundely, growndly, grundliche, grundlike|otherforms=1}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=grǒundlī|pos=adv|id=MED19614}}</ref> from {{m|enm|ground}} (see [[#Etymology 1|etymology 1]]) + {{m|enm|-li|pos={{glossary|suffix}} forming {{glossary|adverb}}s}}.<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=-lī|pos=''suf.''(2)|noformat=1|id=MED25368}}</ref> The English word is analysable as {{suffix|en|ground|ly|pos2=suffix forming adverbs|id2=adverbial}}.<ref>{{R:OED Online|entry=† groundly|pos=adv|id=81832|date=December 2020}}</ref>

====Adverb====
{{en-adv}} {{tlb|en|archaic|rare}}

# In a [[firmly]] [[grounded#Adjective|grounded]] [[manner]]; [[solidly]].
#: {{synonyms|en|groundedly}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:John Heywood|chapter=A Sixt Hundred of Epigrammes. Newly Inuented and Made by John Heywood.|title=The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562).{{nb...|Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition: With an Appendix of Variations.}}|location=Manchester|publisher={{...|Printed [by]}} [Charles Simms and Co.] for the Spenser Society|year=1562|year_published=1867|section=paragraph 29|page=205|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=oNZCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA205|oclc=903166398|passage=Walke '''groundly''', / Talke profoundly, / Drinke roundly, / Sleape ſoundly.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Athanasius of Alexandria|Athanasius]]|chapter=A Treatise Made by Athanasius the Great, Concerning the Use and Vertue of the Psalmes|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cldnAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP12|mainauthor=|translator=[anonymous]|title=The Whole Book of [[w:Psalms|Psalmes]], Collected into English Meeter{{nb...|by Thomas Sternhold, Iohn Hopkins and Others, Conferred with the Hebrue with Apt Notes to Sing Them withal. Set foorth and Allowed to be Sund in All Churches, of All the People, Together and after Morning and Euening Prayers as also before and after Sermons: And moreouer in Priuate Houses, for Their Godly Solace and Comfort, Laying apart All Vngodly Songs and Balades, which Tend Onely to the Nourishing of Vice, and Corrupting of Youth.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed for the}} [[w:Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers|Companie of the Stationers]]|year=1605|section=paragraph 73|oclc=27831586|passage=If thou wilt ſing on good Friday, thou haſt a commendation of the Pſalme, 93. for then was the houſe of Gods Church builded and '''groundly''' founded, though the enemies went about to hinder it: {{...}}}}
# To the very [[ground#Noun|ground]] or [[bottom#Noun|bottom]]; [[deeply]], [[profoundly]]; [[completely]], [[thoroughly]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[anonymous]|editors=[[w:Frederick James Furnivall|Frederick J[ames] Furnivall]]; Walter G. Stone|title=[[w:Prologue and Tale of Beryn|The Tale of Beryn, with a Prologue of the Merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury. {{...|Re-edited from the Duke of Northumberland’s Unique MS, by Frederick J. Furnivall, M.A., Trin[ity] Hall, Cambridge, and Walter G. Stone, Esq.}} Part I.{{nb...|With a Map of Canterbury in 1588 from W. Smith’s Unique MS, and Ogilby’s Plan of the Road from London to Canterbury in 1675.}}]]|series=Chaucer Society, Supplementary [[w:The Canterbury Tales|Canterbury Tales]]|seriesvolume=1|location=London|publisher=For the Chaucer Society by [[w:Nicholas Trübner|N[icholas] Trübner & Co.]],{{nb...|57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, London.}}|year=15th century|year_published=1876|lines=4001–4002|page=120|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IqNIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA120|oclc=1013416072|passage={{...}} Isope cast his [[cheer|chere]] to Beryn so '''groundly''', / That atte last ther''e'' was no man w''ith'' Isope so pryvy:{{nb...}}|brackets=on}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:John Strype|chapter=II|title=Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and Its Reformation, under the Reigns of King {{w|Henry VIII}}. King {{w|Edward VI}}. and Queen [[w:Mary I of England|Mary the First]]:{{nb...|With the Appendixes Containing the Original Papers, Records, &c. In Seven Volumes.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed [by]}} [J. Barfield] for [[w:Samuel Bagster the Elder|Samuel Bagster]],{{nb...|No. 81, Strand.}}|year=1521|year_published=1816|volume=I (Containing the Reign of King Henry the Eighth,{{nb...|with the Memoirs of the Two English Cardinals, Wolsley and Pole.}})|section=book I|page=44|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FuRBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA44|oclc=858275816|passage=Sir, when I '''groundly''' considered your provident forecast, as well for the conservation of your navy from damage, as the princely zeale that yee bear to preserve your subjects, and their goods, {{...}} it is unto me one of the singular consolations and comforts that ever I had; {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Thomas Starkey|chapter=To the Reders|title=[An Exhortation to the People, Instructynge Theym to Unitie and Obedience]|location=London|publisher={{...|In ædibus}} [[w:Thomas Berthelet|Thomae Bertheleti]]{{nb...|regii impressoris excusa.}}|year=[1536]|page=2|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3H9mAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2-IA1|oclc=1049091039|passage=[W]ho ſo euer weyeth mans actes '''groundly''', and of his lyfe the hole proces, he ſhal fynde moſte manifeſtly, and by reaſone ſhall be conſtrayned playnly to confeſſe, that this highe prouydence is not onely declared by ſuch dedes and actes of man, as appere to the worlde to be good and vertuous, but alſo moche more by other, whiche ſeme peſtilent and pernicious, and to all vertue contrarye.}}
#* {{RQ:Ascham Scholemaster|folio=44|verso=1|passage=[A] man '''growndlie''' learned all readie, may take moch proffet him ſelfe in vſing, by ''Epitome'', to draw other mens workes for his owne memorie ſake, into ſhorter [[room|rowme]], {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Marston Malcontent|scene=v|page=33|passage=Why we are both but dead, the Duke hates vs, / ''And thoſe whome Princes doe once '''groundly''' hate,'' / ''Let them prouide to dye; as ſure as fate,'' / ''Preuention is the hart of pollicie.''}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Christopher St. Germain|[Christopher St. Germain]]]|chapter=Of the First Ground of the Law of England|translator=[anonymous]|title=[[w:The Doctor and Student|The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Diuinity, and a Student in the Lawes of England.{{nb...|Newly Corrected & Imprinted, with New Additions.}}]]|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} [Adam Islip for] {{w|Thomas Wight}}|year=1604|section=folio 10, verso|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXlmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA10-IA1|oclc=1203210306|passage=And it is to be noted that all the deriuing of Reaſon in the Law of England proceedeth of the firſt principals of the law, or of ſome thing that is deriued of them: and therefore no man may right wiſely iudge ne '''groundly''' reaſon in the lawes of England, if he be ignorant in the firſt principles, {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:John Weever|chapter=Ancient Funerall Monuments within the Diocesse of London|title=Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Ilands Adiacent,{{nb...|with the Dissolued Monasteries therein Contained; Their Founders, and what Eminent Persons Haue Beene in the Same Interred. As also the Death and Buriall of Certaine of the Bloud Roiall, the Nobilitie, and Gentrie of These Kingdomes, Entombed in Forraine Nations with Other Matters Mentioned in the Insuing Title. Composed by the Travels and Studie of John Weeuer.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} Tho[mas] Harper; and are to be sold {{...|in Little Britayne}} by Laurence Sadler{{nb...|at the signe of the Golden Lion.}}|year=1631|page=658|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-VBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA658|oclc=1167032409|passage=Remember all yee that by this roune be to paſſ, / And '''groundly''' revolue in yowr remembrance, / Both the world is frayle and britle as glaſſ, / The end is death of euery many chance: {{...}}|footer={{small|Part of the epitaph on the tomb of Edward Mackwilliams, his son Henry, and his daughter-in-law Anne Spelman in the parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Thomas Becket, Stambourne, Essex.}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Christopher Stanger|title=A Justification of the Right of Every Well Educated Physician {{...}} Residing within the Jurisdiction of the College of Physicians of London, to be Admitted a Fellow of that Corporation{{nb...|[...] with an Account of the Proceedings of Those Licentiates who Lately Attempted to Establish that Right: Including the Pleadings of the Counsel, and the Opinions of the Judges.}}|location=London|publisher=&#91;{{glossary|s.n.}}&#93;|year=1798|page=308|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=bcQ1VImg-GkC&pg=PA308|oclc=504381015|passage=[T]his corporation {{...}} muſt admit none but what are '''groundly''' learned and deeply ſtudied in phyſic; but that does not give all that are '''groundly''' learned and deeply ſtudied in phyſic, a right to obtrude themſelves into the government of the profeſſion; {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Y. I. Yermakov|chapter=Anchored Complexes in Fundamental Catalytic Research|editors=T. Seiyama; K. Tanabe|title=New Horizons in Catalysis: Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Catalysis, Tokyo, 30 June&nbsp;– 4 July, 1980|series=Studies in Surface Sciences and Catalysis|seriesvolume=7A|location=Tokyo|publisher=w:Kodansha; Amsterdam: [[w:Elsevier|Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company]]|year=1980|year_published=1981|volume_plain=part A|pages=68–69|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWcGqDixngcC&pg=PA69|isbn=978-0-444-99740-1|passage=In benzene hydrogenation and ethane hydrogenolysis the change of activity is distinct in the region of small metal particles, but too slight to discuss its reasons '''groundly'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Laura Giordano; Francesca Toni|chapter=Knowledge Representation and Non-monotonic Reasoning|editors=Agostino Dovier; Enrico Pontelli|title=A 25-year Perspective on Logic Programming: Achievements of the Italian Association for Logic Programming, GULP|series={{w|Lecture Notes in Computer Science}}; Sublibrary SL2 (Programming and Software Engineering)|seriesvolume=LNCS 6125|location=Berlin; Heidelberg|publisher=[[w:Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]|year=2010|page=89|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-FtsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA89|isbn=978-3-642-14308-3|issn=0302-9743|passage=When the above operational semantics is extended to the first order case, suitable conditions have to be introduced to guarantee that when a negative goal is selected all its free variables are '''groundly''' instantiated. This is needed to guarantee the soundness and completeness of the proof procedure.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Frédéric Pollaud-Dulian|chapter=The Dragon and the White Whale: Three Steps Test and Fair Use|editor=Toshiko Takenaka|title=Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law|location=Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; Northampton, Mass.|publisher=w:Edward Elgar Publishing|year=2013|section=part III (Copyright)|page=175|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q66t9W0modoC&pg=PA175|isbn=978-0-85793-436-9|passage=In the author's opinion, the essential issue is to decide what has to be '''groundly''' predominating in intellectual property regulation: authors' interests, creation, intellectual property or collective interest, consumers' demands, economics?}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-see|in a firmly grounded manner|solidly}}
{{trans-see|to the very ground or bottom|deeply|profoundly}}
{{trans-see|completely, thoroughly|completely|thoroughly}}

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