capitally
advEtymology From capital + -ly.
1
Chiefly; principally.
2
Dated Excellently.
- We enjoyed ourselves capitally.
- "And I'll get into this vehicle," he said. "The horse is quiet, and the princess drives capitally."1901 [1878], chapter 17, in Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 6:
3
By capital punishment.
- It was decreed regarding him also, that whoever should say he had been a man should be capitally punished.1885, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (original translators and editors), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (editor of American edition), Philip Schaff (also credited as editor), “Chapter 5”, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: