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laxly, adv.|ˈlækslɪ|
[f. lax a. + -ly2.]
1. In physical sense: Loosely; with loose cohesion; slackly, without tension.
1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 24 With [it] all the other elements..are more laxly or intimately blended. 1887D. C. Murray & Herman One Trav. Returns ii. 35 The queen's head fell laxly on the arm which encircled her.
b. Bot., etc.: With loose or open arrangement; not closely, compactly, or densely.
1847W. E. Steele Field Bot. 191 The flor. thin, laxly imbricated. 1852Dana Crust. i. 586 Hand..laxly pubescent about the fingers. 1867J. R. Jackson in Intell. Observ. No. 62. 129 Laxly or densely imbricate. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 101 Vicia sylvatica..Racemes laxly 6–18-flowered.
2. With moral or intellectual looseness; without strictness, precision, or exactness.
1680Answ. Stillingfleet's Serm. 12 We will not speak so laxly altogether as he does there. 1773Johnson in Boswell 24 Oct., Nobody, at times, talks more laxly than I do. 1779[Burke] ibid. 12–19 Oct., I do not think that men who live laxly in the world, as you and I do, can with propriety assume such an authority. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. III. iii. vi. 302 The former of these corrective functions must have been rather laxly exercised. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 3) I. iii. 102 The..Thegns would attend more laxly. 1868Ibid. (1876) II. ix. 403 We must remember how laxly that word is often taken. 1889H. D. Traill Strafford 74 The enforcement of the laxly administered penal statutes. |