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riˈdiculously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a ridiculous manner; absurdly.
α1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1383/1 So foolishly and ridiculously seeking holes and corners to hyde them selues in. 1580G. Harvey in G. G. Smith Eliz. Crit. Ess. (1904) I. 119 We are..not to deuise any..Accent of oure owne, as manye..haue corruptely and ridiculouslye done in the Greeke. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 34 They most ridiculously pretended, that in a vniversall deluge, mankinde was preserued in themselues onely. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. iv. §3 It could not bee then any particular deluge.., as some have ridiculously imagined. 1713Berkeley Hylas & Phil. iii. Wks. 1871 I. 335 Whether it be not ridiculously absurd to misapply names contrary to the common use of language. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty viii. 40 In some it would be ridiculously losing time. 1822Scott Peveril iv, If the Puritan was..ridiculously precise in his manners. 1885Manch. Exam. 18 Feb. 3/3 The ridiculously high prices given for violins.
β1606G. W[oodcock] Lives Emperors, Hist. Ivstine F f 6, Being redicolously left off, he followed swarmes of flies. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 65 Rediculously supposed..[to be] Seth, Enosh and Methuselah. |