adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a complaisant manner; courteously, obligingly; compliantly.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 77, ¶ 1. Alexander the Great had a wry neck, which made it the fashion in his court to carry their heads on one side … One … carried his head so over complaisantly, that this martial prince gave him … a box on the ear.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, II. 290. He saluted me, very complaisantly.
1812. G. Colman, Br. Grins (1872), 206. Giving themselves most complaisantly up To Sensuality.
