adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a comic or comical manner.

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1609.  B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., IV. v. The Ladies have laugh’d at thee most comically, since thou went’st, Dauphine.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., III. i. I. i. (1676), 258/2. I am resolved … to Act several parts, some Satyrically, some Comically.

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1717.  Lady M. W. Montague, Lett., xxiv. 16 Jan. How my adventures will conclude, I leave entirely to Providence; if comically, you shall hear of them.

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1844.  Kinglake, Eöthen, ii. A strut so comically pompous.

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1871.  G. Meredith, H. Richmond, xli. ‘I’m not invited,’ she moaned comically.

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