rhapsodicallyadv.

1586 J. Dee Let. 14 May in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 423 Thus much very rhapsodically, (yet faithfully),..I thought good to commit to the safe..conveyance of a young Merchant here.

a1735 W. Derham Life Mr. Ray in J. Ray Select Remains (1760) 46 These Observations Mr. Willughby had rhapsodically written in Latin... Mr Ray was at no small Labour to finish the Book, by revising the whole, digesting it into Order, and supplying..what was wanting therein.

2002 G. Richter Walter Benjamin & Corpus of Autobiogr. Introd. 47 To say, as Benjamin does, that memory is to proceed rhapsodically means to reject its pretension of linearity and closure. To think and write rhapsodically means, among other things, to operate in a disconnected style.

1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 129 Pitt's [speech] void of argument, but rhapsodically and diffusively eloquent.

1819 C. Lamb Let. 7 June (1935) II. 251 My pen goes galloping on most rhapsodically.

1853 Fraser's Mag. 47 560 He breaks out rhapsodically in its praises.

1897 W. James Will to Believe p. ix ‘Nature is miracle all; the same returns not, save to bring the different.’.. This is pluralism, somewhat rhapsodically expressed.

1955 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 25 Jan. 11 a/3 A few weeks ago I wrote rhapsodically about the cosiness and beauty of winter on a mountain farm.

1993 Nature 18 Nov. 200/2 A system that is already rhapsodically called ‘the best in the world’ by its supporters.