adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a commodious manner: † a. advantageously, profitably (obs.); b. conveniently, now esp. in respect to ready access and roominess.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 28. Eke se thi lande Be bering, and commodiously stande.
a. 1535. More, On the Passion, Wks. 1292/1. He sought oportuniti that he might commodiously betraye hym.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 70. An inscription such as a man may commodiously write or engraue vpon a tombe.
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 1083. To pass commodiously this life, sustain’d By him with many comforts.
1672. Petty, Pol. Anat. (1691), 79. Ireland lieth Commodiously for the Trade of the new American world.
1784. Johnson, Lett. Reynolds, 9 Sept. Who led me very commodiously into conversation with the Duke.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 147. In this state it is more commodiously transportable.
1823. Macaulay, Misc. Writ. (1860), I. 128. This name so commodiously vague.
1839. Thirlwall, Greece, VIII. 213. It lay very commodiously for the prosecution of [their] designs.
