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ˈnumerously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In or by great numbers; abundantly.
1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. i. i, They..may as numerously be multiplied. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 79 The Atomes or small particles will ascend most numerously unto it. 1673–4Grew Anat. Pl., Anat. Trunks ii. §8 In standing, most numerously, in or near, the inner Margin of the Barque. 1779H. Walpole Wks. (1846) VI. 47 You, who keep your⁓self so warm and so numerously clothed. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 502 The box is numerously perforated at the bottom. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 225 Nor is there any reason to believe that any of these addresses was numerously signed. 1870Rogers Hist. Glean. Ser. ii. 17 So numerously did students throng to the medieval university.
Comb.1829Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit., Abr. Petit. Justice 37 Another and more numerously-seated Westminster Hall judicatory. 1887Pall Mall G. 6 Sept. 2/1 The same case of a numerously-daughtered paterfamilias.
2. Harmoniously, rhythmically. rare—1.
1656Cowley Misc., Elegie upon Anacreon, The Smooth⁓pac'd Hours of ev'ry day Glided numerously away. |