adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a voluminous manner, in senses of the adj.
1. At great length; with abundant or copious discourse; to the extent of volumes.
1633. Heywood, Eng. Trav., To Rdr. It neuer was any great ambition in me, to bee in this kind Volumniously [sic] read.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., Apol. 12. Lest we should write voluminously and without end or profit. Ibid. (1672), Bagshaw’s Scand., ii. 17. When I had not only said the contrary, but told where I had voluminously proved it.
1704. Swift, Batt. Bks., Bookseller to Rdr. The doctor falls hard upon a new edition of Phalaris,… to which Mr. Boyle replied … with great learning and wit, and the doctor voluminously rejoined.
a. 1751. Bolingbroke, Fragm. Ess., xxxiii. Wks. 1754, V. 262. They insisted on them so constantly and so voluminously, that natural religion held but the second place in their system.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 464. Elizabeth exercised her poetical pen more voluminously than we have hitherto known.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, Introd. On the Edict, both urban and provincial, he wrote voluminously.
2. In swelling wreaths or rolls; in turns or windings.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 559. Clouds … Thy flowing mantle form, and, heav’n throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train.
1823. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit., Ser. II. III. 248. The transparent lake … voluminously winding by banks covered with olives and laurels.
3. In a large mass or quantity.
1834. De Quincey, Autob. Sk., Wks. 1854, II. 175. Stowing away … the snowy folds of a lady’s gown … so voluminously, that a very small portion of it, indeed, remained for the lady’s own use.
1846. Poe, L. G. Clark, Wks. 1864, III. 111. His hair and whiskers are dark, the latter meeting voluminously under the chin.
1864. E. Burritt, Walk, 313. A mineral spring at which the visitors … drink most voluminously.
