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curiously, adv.|ˈkjʊərɪəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a curious manner.
1. Carefully, attentively, arch.
1382Wyclif Eccl. ix. 1 Alle these thingus I tretede in myn herte, that I vndirstonde curyously. c1400Mandeville (1839) vi. 66 Whiche Sepultures the Sarazines kepen fulle curyously. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 430/2 Kepyng hymself ryght curyously fro the..world. 1670Walton Lives i. 19 [She] had been curiously and plentifully educated. 1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 37 He must curiously observe, if the first and second Advice agree, or not. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. iv. (ed. 2) 322 If they [Welch Coal] are curiously burnt, they gingle like common Cinders. 1871Tennyson Idylls, Last Tourn. 90 Take thou my churl, and tend him curiously.
2. Inquisitively; pryingly.
1382Wyclif 2 Thess. iii. 11 Summe among ȝou..no thing worchinge, but doynge curiously [1611 are busi-bodies]. 1869R. Semmes Advent. Afloat ii. 716 Crowds gathered to look curiously upon her. 1886Besant Children of Gibeon ii. xxxi, Lady Mildred listened and watched him curiously, as if trying to read something unexpressed.
3. With careful art, skilfully, elaborately, exquisitely, cunningly. arch.
1340Ayenb. 176 Leuedis þet zuo curiouseliche agrayþeþ hire heaueden mid preciouse agrayþinges. c1380Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 128 Wiþ silver vessel þei ben servyd curiously. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 181 Craft of mannes hand so curiously Arrayed hadde this gardyn. 1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 197 That we seek not and gather together curiously dainty things for banqueting. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 20 The Steeple of S. Maries Church is..Curiously built and carved. 1711Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 283 The Pontifical most curiously illuminated. 1809–12M. Edgeworth Madame de Fleury x, Her curiously wrought ivory toys. 1875E. White Life in Christ iv. xxiv. (1876) 408 It is of far more importance..to preserve the body for ever than to clothe it curiously now.
†b. By art; artificially. Obs. rare.
1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. (ed. 2) 51 Things curiously Created, differ as much from thinges begotten, as the first Man from birth, and artificiall bodies from mans issue.
4. With minute accuracy, minutely, critically, fastidiously, nicely, delicately. arch.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 91 b, I suppose we neede not to reason any curiouslyer hereof at this present. 1586Thynne in Holinshed II. 405 Curiouslie carping at my barrennes in writing. 1607–12Bacon Ess. Studies (Arb.) 8 To be read but not curiously. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 118 Joiners work more curiously, and observe the Rules more exactly, than Carpenters need do. 1823Scott Peveril xv, You should enquire into these matters a little more curiously. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 85 As if a man should curiously describe the cylinders and the pistons and the wheels, etc.
†5. ‘Nicely’, finely, excellently, handsomely, beautifully. Obs.
1548Hall Chron. 197 b, Richely trapped, and curiouslye armed. 1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. clxxxi. 756 The second wife is..curiously handsome. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 233 A Viol full of intoxicating Wine, which both looked and relished curiously. 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 67 The Leaves of the Trees are like green Birch-tree Leaves, curiously sweet. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Syllabub, Let it stand two or three hours, till it settles, and it will eat curiously.
6. In a way that excites interest or surprise; remarkably, strangely, oddly; queerly.
1665Hooke Microgr. 91 An infinite variety of curiously figur'd Snow. 1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 164 The entrance was long, and curiously arched over with the stems of dried grass. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. (1873) 161 Verses..curiously prophetic of the maturer man. 1875Jevons Money (1878) 128 Curiously enough no modern government thought of employing a well-chosen bronze for small money. |