numerouslyadv.
/ˈnjuːm(ə)rəsli/, U.S. /ˈn(j)um(ə)rəsli/ 1. In or by great numbers; abundantly.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adverb]
manifoldlyeOE
thick971
a-storec1300
rifec1325
thickfolda1400
thicklyc1400
by, in heaps1523
amain1549
numerously1611
frequently1615
sight1836
multitudinously1839
like flies1934
1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) i. sig. B2 They..may as numerously be multiplied.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 79 The Atomes or small particles will ascend most numerously unto it. View more context for this quotation
1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. ii. 9 In standing, most numerously, in or near, the inner Margin of the Barque.
1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 301 Yet three or four Feet in the Moss, there is a sort of little Shell-Fish resembling Oysters, found numerously in the very body of the Peats.
1779 H. Walpole Wks. (1846) VI. 47 You, who keep yourself so warm and so numerously clothed.
1797 R. B. Sheridan Let. 4 July (1966) III. 71 I trust..that you will have the Petition numerously sign'd.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 502 The box is numerously perforated at the bottom.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 225 Nor is there any reason to believe that any of these addresses was numerously signed.
1870 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings 2nd Ser. 17 So numerously did students throng to the medieval university.
1900 A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds 274 This bird is numerously dispersed over the northern parts of Australia.
1937 Bulletin (Sydney) 30 June 21/4 Such lofty hardwoods as crow's-ash..and Burdekin plum occur numerously.
1998 Church Times 17 July 13/1 In 1998 these bishops will have spiritual and moral leadership, most numerously from Africa.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adverb]
numerously1656
rhythmically1775
1656 A. Cowley Elegie upon Anacreon in Poems 39 The smooth-pac'ed Hours of ev'ery day Glided numerously away.
1808 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 71 It is scarcely giv[en] to one in an age to write blank verse numerously.
Compounds
Modifying a participial adjective, as †numerously daughtered, †numerously seated adjs.
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1829 J. Bentham Justice & Codif. Petit., Abr. Petit. Justice 37 Another and more numerously-seated Westminster Hall judicatory.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Sept. 2/1 The same case of a numerously-daughtered paterfamilias.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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