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savourily, adv.|ˈseɪvərɪlɪ|
Also savorily.
[f. savoury a. + -ly2.]
1. In a savoury manner, with a pleasing smell or taste, appetizingly. Also, † with relish or appetite.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. ix. (Bodl. MS.), A serpent..eteþ more sauoryly [ed. 1495 sauvurly] þanne þaie dede bifore þe chaunginge of þe skynne. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. ii. iii. 81 Apples or peares first dried, then prepared with cinamon and butter very sauourily. 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. (1711) 49, I can eat Foxes and Kites as savourily as if it were Mutton. 1790Blake in Gilchrist Life (1863) I. 86 Here and there I saw one savourily picking the flesh off his own tail. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Old China, We would eat our plain food savorily. 1841Fraser's Mag. XXIII. 679 Two small pullets were brought in,..smelling most savouryly. 1886R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) III. 103 Roasted meat, With basting oil so savourily replete!
†2. fig. Heartily, pleasurably; appreciatively. Also, in religious use (cf. savoury a. 2 b).
1643Milton Divorce ii. iii. (1644) 38 Yet that he commanded the allowance of adulterous and injurious divorses for hardnes of heart,..they can very savourily perswade themselves. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 12 Which being seen, and savourily known, I admired my former ignorances. 1676O. Heywood Diaries, etc. (1883) III. 147 A blind man prayed pertinently and savourily. |