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extravagantly, adv.|ɛkˈstrævəgəntlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In an extravagant manner; to an extravagant degree.
†1. In an irregular position or manner; in no fixed order. Obs.
1623Markham Country Content. ii. 126 Setting the Sallets extravagantly about the table. 1625Souldiers Accid. 45 The Corporalls..office is..to ride extravagantly vp and downe on either side the Troope.
2. In a manner transgressing the bounds of reason or propriety; † usurpingly, encroachingly; in later use, with extravagance or undue violence of feeling or expression.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vi. (1703) II. 53 The two Houses having..extravagantly nominated their own Divines. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 13 Who have so extravagantly attributed both powers to be in the King. a1700Dryden (J.), Her passion was extravagantly new; But mine is much the madder of the two. 1710Steele Tatler No. 246 ⁋8 They so extravagantly aim at what they are unfit for. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 369 The famous fall..is..extravagantly and ludicrously described. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 136 Their antagonists flew off as extravagantly from the sober good sense of our forefathers. 1858Holland Titcomb's Lett. iii. 35 Everybody now dresses extravagantly.
3. In an excessive degree; to an excess.
a1715Burnet Own Time ii. (1724) I. 292 This Act..being extravagantly severe. 1743Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) I. lxxv. 271 Sold..for {pstlg}300,000 a year, and that was reckoned extravagantly dear. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. ii. 88 Idolatry, to which all mankind were then extravagantly prone. 1890Spectator 15 Feb., Extravagantly fertile regions.
4. In a too expensive manner; with wasteful profusion or prodigality.
Mod. The house was extravagantly furnished. |