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fabulously, adv.|ˈfæbjʊləslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a fabulous manner or degree.
1. After the manner of a fable or fiction; as in a fable.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. vi. vii. (1604) 131 These things are vncertaine and fabulously augmented. 1613Selden Notes on Drayton's Polyolb. viii. (1622) 122 Giants..fabulously supposed begotten by spirits upon Dioclesian's or Danaus' daughters. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. vi. 295 This they terme mythicon or fabulous, because the account thereof..is fabulously or imperfectly delivered. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 467 The voyages, indeed, are fabulously narrated. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 527 It would read fabulously enough.
2. In deviation from the fact; fictitiously, falsely.
1593Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex. i. 36 As is (though as I take it) fabulouslie reported. 1608B. Jonson Masque at Ld. Hadington's Marriage Induct. Wks. (1616) 934 The place from whence, as I haue been, not fabulously, informed, the..Radcliffes..tooke their name. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 39 b, A certain Spaniard..was fabulously said to..see the lowest Veins of Water that run under ground.
3. To a fabulous degree; greatly, immensely.
1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 247 His cruelties have been fabulously exaggerated. Mod. He is reported to be fabulously wealthy. |