parsimoniouslyadv.

a1634 J. Marston Poems (1961) 179 But who so weake of obseruation, Hath not discern'd..How parcimoniously the heauens haue scanted, Our chiefest part of adornation?

1663 Case Madam Mary Carlton 43 Nor did I spend parcimoniously, and at an ordinary rate.

1714 J. Swift Publick Spirit Whigs 18 Our Ancestors acted parsimoniously, because they only spent their own Treasure for the Good of their Posterity; whereas we squandered away the Treasures of our Posterity too.

1759 S. Johnson Rasselas I. xii. 80 I am not yet willing..to suppose that happiness is so parsimoniously distributed to mortals.

1799 C. B. Brown Ormond xxiii. 266 His slender stock, though frugally and even parsimoniously administered, was nearly exhausted.

1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 55 Professions lavishly effused and parsimoniously verified are..inconsistent.

1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 161 I continued..to live most parsimoniously in lodgings.

1919 V. Woolf Diary (1979) I. 236 A failure of vitality warning him not to be spendthrift but to eke out his gifts parsimoniously.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1552/2 Most of the clinical items used to describe endogenous depression may be more parsimoniously regarded as representing depression per se.

1995 D. Sobel Longitude vii. 62 His family..dealt out names so parsimoniously that it is impossible to keep track of all the Henrys, Johns, and Elizabeths without pencil and paper.