floridlyadv.
/ˈflɒrᵻdli/, U.S. /ˈflɔrᵻdli/, /ˈflɑrᵻdli/ In a florid manner; esp. with respect to speech.
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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adverb] > vivid or bright
brightc1400
brightly1633
vigorously1638
floridly1667
vividly1668
glowinglya1887
flamboyantly1894
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb]
ornatelya1500
gorgeously1532
flourishingly1574
floridly1667
lusciously1779
chromatically1787
flowerily1886
1667 H. Stubbe in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 500 Their Spleen is Triangular..and floridly red.
1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xiv. 131 You have apologized more floridly and rhetorically for me than [etc.].
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber ii. 32 By endeavouring to be floridly grateful, I talk'd Nonsense.
1881 Macmillan's Mag. 43 386/2 A floridly sensational religious novel.
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