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fashionably, adv.|ˈfæʃənəblɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a fashionable manner.
†1. With respect to the fashion or external form; outwardly, superficially, in appearance. (Cf. fashionable 2.) Obs.
1614Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 85 How fewe are there, that doe otherwise than fashionably professe him [Christ]. 1615Stephens Satyr. Ess. (ed. 2) 336 A Pettifogging Atturny..may take bribes from both parties, and please both fashionably. 1628Bp. Hall Contempl. IV. xii. 74 Neither doth Saul goe fashionably to worke, but does this service heartily. 1656Artif. Handsom. 25 Those many arts..of dressing and adorning, which..ingenuity..had found out, and fashionably used.
2. Conformably to the prevailing fashion or usage, esp. that current in upper-class society.
1628Earle Microcosm., Serving Man (Arb.) 83 A Seruing man..is cast behind his master as fashionably as his sword and cloake are. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. ii. ii. ii. (1737) II. 148 However fashionably we may apply the Notion of good Living. a1716South Serm. (1737) II. vi. 215 He might so fashionably and genteelly..have been duelled or fluxed into another world. Ibid. VI. iii. 94 A rotten, fashionably-diseased body. 1781Cowper Hope 92 A mind, not yet so blank, or fashionably blind. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1849) 125 They were dressed fashionably, but simply. |