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pleasantly, adv.|ˈplɛzəntlɪ|
[f. pleasant a. + -ly2.]
In a pleasant manner.
1. In a way that pleases or gratifies; pleasingly, agreeably.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 3 Þei myȝten lyue as plesandeli to god & as moche profit to holi chirche. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1689 That they should sownde To the eares of hem the more plesauntly. 1529Supplic. to King (E.E.T.S.) 48 Castelles, pleasauntely set abowte with parckes. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 93 All the women of Persia are pleasantly apparelled. 1776Ld. Hailes in Boswell Johnson 30 Aug., Dr. Johnson's Suasorium is pleasantly and artfully composed. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 193 On our way we can pass the time pleasantly in talking.
2. In a manner showing pleasure or contentment; cheerfully, goodhumouredly.
1388Wyclif Ps. l[i]. 21 Thanne thou schalt take plesauntli the sacrifice of riȝtfulnesse. 1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. ii. x. (1557) 105 b, That they [servants] do their duty diligently, mekely, and buxomly, yea and merily to, and pleasantly. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. iii. (1701) 94/2 He gave him the Cup, Socrates took it chearfully,..and looking pleasantly upon him, demanded whether he might spill any of it in libation. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 12 The young brown eyes seemed to dwell on her pleasantly.
†3. By way of pleasantry; humorously, facetiously, jocosely. Obs.
1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 48 b, Many wittie men take occasion to reason pleasantly upon the interpretation of a worde. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 259 They will giue you a head of Garlick rosted in the ashes, and pleasantly call it a pigeon. 1787G. White Selborne iv. (1789) 10 This embellishment..has occasioned strangers sometimes to ask us pleasantly, ‘whether we fastend our walls together with tenpenny nails?’ |