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voˈluminously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a voluminous manner, in senses of the adj.
1. At great length; with abundant or copious discourse; to the extent of volumes.
1633Heywood Eng. Trav. To Rdr., It neuer was any great ambition in me, to bee in this kind Volumniously [sic] read. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. Apol. 12 Lest we should write voluminously and without end or profit. 1672― Bagshaw's Scand. ii. 17 When I had not only said the contrary, but told where I had voluminously proved it. 1704Swift Batt. Bks. Bookseller to Rdr., The doctor falls hard upon a new edition of Phalaris,..to which Mr. Boyle replied..with great learning and wit, and the doctor voluminously rejoined. a1751Bolingbroke Fragm. Ess. xxxiii. Wks. 1754 V. 262 They insisted on them so constantly and so voluminously, that natural religion held but the second place in their system. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 464 Elizabeth exercised her poetical pen more voluminously than we have hitherto known. 1880Muirhead Gaius Introd., On the Edict, both urban and provincial, he wrote voluminously.
2. In swelling wreaths or rolls; in turns or windings.
1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 559 Clouds..Thy flowing mantle form, and, heav'n throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train. 1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. Ser. ii. III. 248 The transparent lake..voluminously winding by banks covered with olives and laurels.
3. In a large mass or quantity.
1834De Quincey Autob. Sk. Wks. 1854 II. 175 Stowing away..the snowy folds of a lady's gown..so voluminously, that a very small portion of it, indeed, remained for the lady's own use. 1846Poe L. G. Clark Wks. 1864 III. 111 His hair and whiskers are dark, the latter meeting voluminously under the chin. 1864E. Burritt Walk 313 A mineral spring at which the visitors..drink most voluminously. |