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▪ I. leisurely, a.|ˈlɛʒ(jʊ)əlɪ|
[f. leisure n. + -ly1.]
1. Of persons: Having leisure or unoccupied time; proceeding without haste.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 515 With these and manifold other antiquities, Gillius can best acquaint the more leasurely Reader. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. 318 The men of leisurely minds. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 II. 236 The leisurely and rich agriculturist, who goeth out a-field after dinner.
2. Of actions or agents: Performed or operating at leisure or without haste; deliberate.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies vii. ii. 500 They spent fourescore yeares in this manner of leisurely travell, the which they might have done in a moneth. 1711Addison Spect. No. 159 ⁋4 Upon a more leisurely Survey of it. 1746Berkeley Sec. Let. Tar-water §10 Wks. 1871 III. 475 The same medicine..is a leisurely alterative in chronical disorders. 1875J. H. Bennet Winter Medit. iv. xix. 614 A leisurely journey across the south of France.
▪ II. ˈleisurely, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
At leisure, without haste; with deliberate or leisurely motion or action.
1486Bk. St. Albans B iv b, Than softe and layserly fall oppon yowre kneys. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 161 b, That he synge or saye his duty distinctly and leyserly. 1598Epulario G j, Let it broile very wel and leisurely. 1670Milton Hist. Brit. Wks. 1738 II. 2 After the Flood, and the dispersing of Nations, as they journey'd leisurely from the East. 1796H. Glasse Cookery v. 53 Let it do leisurely, keep it basting. 1807Wordsw. Misc. Sonn. i. xiv, A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 105 In the afternoon we..proceeded leisurely with our two guides up the slope. |