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magnifically, adv. arch.|mægˈnɪfɪkəlɪ| [f. magnifical + -ly2.] In a ‘magnific’ manner; magnificently, splendidly: in eulogistic terms.
1555Eden Decades 139 They frendely & magnifycally enterteyned owr men. 1578T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 361 The Emperour received Cortes magnificially. 1579Fulke Conf. Sanders 668 Chrysostome..speaketh magnifically of the crosse. 1609Bible (Douay) Ps. cxxv[i]. 2 Our Lord hath done magnifically with them. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 113 The Venetians live sparingly. The Siennesi magnifically. 1651tr. De-las-Coveras' Don Fenise 247 Treating him magnifically, he began to qualifie him with the name of sonne-in-law. 1889Sat. Rev. 11 May 562/1 A paragraph magnifically headed ‘Mr. Harrison's Return to Oxford’. |