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compactly, adv.|kəmˈpæktlɪ|
[f. compact a. + -ly2.]
In a compact manner; closely, densely; concisely, tersely.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 203 They know how and when to speake..soundly, pithily and compactly. 1696Lond. Gaz. No. 3196/4 Several Closes of Meadow..lying compactly together. 1817Byron Beppo xix, A Gondola..built lightly, but compactly. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 421 The annuli, or rings..may be detected even in the most compactly formed Crustacea. 1864Ld. Derby Iliad iv. 349 A cloud of infantry, Compactly mass'd. |