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ˈsportively, adv.
[f. prec. + ly2.]
1. With the lively movements characteristic of sport; playfully.
1597Drayton Heroical Epistles 68, I saw the soft ayre sportiuely to take it. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxvi, Now she moved with solemn steps,..and now tripped sportively along the path. 1797― Italian xvii, As they sportively threw about their sugar-plums. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 340 The females that passed in review before me, tripping sportively along. 1812Cary Dante, Purg. xvi. 88 Forth from his plastic hand..the soul Comes like a babe, that wantons sportively.
2. In or with sportive or jesting words; jocosely, facetiously.
1631Heylin St. George 90 Therefore sportively accoasting him,..said [etc.]. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy v. xxxix, Well, my good Doctor, cried my father, sportively. 1780F. Burney Diary June, A sportively complimentary conversation took place. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 217 In the play of his fancy [he] will sportively say Some delicate censure that pops in his way. 1842Browning Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli i, Men call the Flower the Sunflower, sportively. 1871Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life (1895) II. vii. 46 We were all much troubled to hear..about your own accident. You were able to speak sportively about [etc.].
3. In sport or jest.
1793Miss H. M. Williams Lett. France II. 43 One day Lewis XV. sportively created him governor of Lucienne. |