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famously, adv.|ˈfeɪməslɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
†1. In a famous or celebrated manner, renownedly. Obs.
1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 670 Rome doeth set foorth the merites of Peter and Paule the more famously and solemnly. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, ii. iii. 19 This land was famously enrich'd With politike graue Counsell. 1684Winstanley in Shaks. C. Praise 400 He became so famously witty. 1727–36Bailey, Famously, renownedly.
†2. In or by common talk; commonly, openly. Also, in bad sense: Notoriously. Obs.
1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 32 Molucca so famously spoken of for the great abundaunce of swete spices. 1592Nashe Intercepting of Cert. Lett. G iij, [Stannyhurst] had neuer been praisd by Gabriel for his labour, if therein hee had not bin so famously absurd. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 277 Which story is famously knowne in Cambridge. 1637R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Pref., It notoriously appeareth, and famously to their eternall infamy brands the Papists. 1701Grew Cosm. Sacra iv. ii. §32 They looked on the Particulars, as Things famously spoken of. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxiv. 18 The Town is famously infamous for a Seminary of female Lewdness.
†b. Publicly; so that the fact may be widely known Obs.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) 709/1 The said John Hus shall be famously deposed and degraded from his priestly Orders.
3. colloq. Excellently, splendidly, capitally. Cf. famous a. 5.
1607Shakes. Cor. i. i. 37, I say vnto you what he hath done Famouslie, he did it to that end. 1671Lond. Gaz. No. 544/4 The City of Argiers..is famously carved and painted in her stern, being a new stout Ship. 1746in Leisure Hour (1880) 119, I had the terrible mortification of seeing a horse of Willy's famously beat. 1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. i. i, I've contrived it famously. 1858Ramsay Remin. v. (ed. 18) 119 We get on famously. |