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voˈluptuously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a voluptuous manner; so as to gratify or indulge the senses; luxuriously; sensually.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. x. (Skeat) l. 18 Heritykes, sayn they, chosen lyf bestial, that voluptuously liven. 1549Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 128 To eate and drincke in the forgetfulnes of goddes commaundement, voluptuously, in excesse and glotonnie. 1602W. Fulbecke Pandects 78 The people of Sodom and Gomorra voluptuously mingling themselues with the women of the Moabites. a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 21 It is a sin to live voluptuously, to have none other calling but pastimes and vaine sports. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. v. 212 Alfred enjoying three years of peace, by him spent, as his manner was, not idlely or voluptuously, but in all vertuous emploiments. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xiii. vi, The Hopes of seeing Sophia at the Masquerade, on which..he had voluptuously feasted during the whole Day. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek 82 Vathek (voluptuously reposed in his capacious litter upon cushions of silk..) was soundly asleep. 1805Wordsw. Prelude i. 251 Ah! better far than this, to stray about Voluptuously through fields and rural walks. 1857Dickens Dorrit i. xx, She..composed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xlv, The cool, well-shaded, voluptuously-furnished room. |