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† well-ˈfavouredly, adv. Obs.
In a well-favoured manner. a. Beautifully, handsomely; attractively, gracefully.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 668/2 But now goeth Tindal wel fauoredly forth with a great face of another ful solucion. 1538Elyot Dict., Pulchre, an aduerbe, signifyeth fayre, beautifully, well fauoredly. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 7 We dooe not put images to makyng but onely to suche werkemenne of whom wee see some noumbre of images welfauouredly and mynionly made afore. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 143 Teatche me to shoote as fayre, and welfauouredly as you can imagen. 1562Turner Bathes 1 b, He that had ben in Italye and Germany, and had sene howe costly and wellfauoredly the bathes are trimmed and appoynted there..woulde [etc.]. 1790Shirrefs Poems Gloss. 39/1 Weelfar'dly, cleverly, with a good grace. 1825Jamieson, Weil-faur'tlie, adv. 1. Handsomely, S.
b. Ironically, in reference to thrashing, punishment, etc.: Severely, soundly, ‘handsomely’.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 100 Diogenes..tooke abrode thongue..and the same wel fauouredly bestowed about y⊇ ribbes and pate of Midias. 1565Kyng Daryus 404 (Brandl) He wil not away til I canuis him wel fauoredly. 1579–80North Plutarch, Antonius (1595) 990 They them selues were oftentimes put to flight, and welfauoredly beaten. 1639Fuller Holy War ii. xxiv. (1640) 74 He would often give a smart jest,..and sometimes he was well-favouredly met with; as the best fencer in wits school hath now and then an unhappy blow dealt him. 1652Heylyn Cosmogr. ii. 151 The [Russian] women..think themselves neither loved nor regarded, unlesse they be two or three times a day well favouredly swadled. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, I Swing'd him off, I lay'd on and beat him well-favoredly.
c. ? Lavishly, liberally.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 259/1 About the sute whereof when much monie was bestowed on both sides welfauoredlie.
d. By good fortune, happily. Sc.
a1774Fergusson Poems, Eclogue 96 Whan I shoot my nose in, ten to ane If I weelfardly see my ane hearthstane. |