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MINUTELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In minute detail
Example:
our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses
Synonyms:
circumstantially; minutely
Classified under:
Pertainym:
minute (infinitely or immeasurably small)
Context examples:
It was very hard, but I turned back, though with a heavy heart, and began laboriously and methodically to plod over the same tedious ground at a snail's pace; stopping to examine minutely every speck in the way, on all sides, and making the most desperate efforts to know these elusive characters by sight wherever I met them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Most of the rooms were unfurnished, but none the less Holmes inspected them all minutely.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; this history was mingled with accounts of domestic occurrences.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining minutely the cracks between the boards.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The very last evening was spent there; and her ladyship again inquired minutely into the particulars of their journey, gave them directions as to the best method of packing, and was so urgent on the necessity of placing gowns in the only right way, that Maria thought herself obliged, on her return, to undo all the work of the morning, and pack her trunk afresh.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He took out the two ears as he spoke, and laying a board across his knee he examined them minutely, while Lestrade and I, bending forward on each side of him, glanced alternately at these dreadful relics and at the thoughtful, eager face of our companion.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As we advanced and left the track, we trod a soft turf, mossy fine and emerald green, minutely enamelled with a tiny white flower, and spangled with a star-like yellow blossom: the hills, meantime, shut us quite in; for the glen, towards its head, wound to their very core.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The window, the curtains, the carpet, the chair, the rope—each in turn was minutely examined and duly pondered.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She inquired into Charlotte's domestic concerns familiarly and minutely, gave her a great deal of advice as to the management of them all; told her how everything ought to be regulated in so small a family as hers, and instructed her as to the care of her cows and her poultry.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
