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ˈsumptuously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a sumptuous manner; at great cost, with great expenditure of money; with magnificence or pomp of living, equipment, decoration, entertainment, etc.
1536Act 28 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §1 The Kynges Highnes..moste sumptuously..hath buylded..many..mansions. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 41 The Frenche kyng..sumpteously banquetted theim. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia ii. (1895) 264 Thither they sende furth some of their citezeins..to lyue theire sumptuously. 1580–1Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. III. 347 The said wardane hes bene verie suumptuuslie superexpendit in the office of wardanrie. 1611Bible Luke xvi. 19 There was a certaine rich man, which..fared sumptuously euery day. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 145 A building all of Marble..couered with lead very sumptiously. 1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 225 The women are very sumptuously clad. 1784Cowper Task iv. 251 Not sumptuously adorn'd, nor needing aid, Like homely featur'd night, of clust'ring gems. 1870F. R. Wilson Ch. Lindisf. 76 The whole has been sumptuously coloured. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 216 The sumptuously-attired Timothy.
b. transf. Splendidly, nobly. rare.
1750H. Walpole Let. to Mann 18 Oct., Why, child, you will find yourself as sumptuously descended as—‘All the blood of all the Howards’. |