adv. [f. prec. + -LY2: cf. CONSUME v. 7; probably sometimes associated with consummately.] Excessively, extremely, hugely.
App. at first = confoundedly, as an expression of execration or dislike; slang of c. 1700, which has been handed down by the dramatists of that day, and become a literary affectation.
1707. Farquhar, Beaux’ Strat., II. i. Sullen. My Head akes consumedly.
1707. Cibber, Double Gallant, IV. sp. xvi. That Woman … is most consumedly mistaken.
1774. P. Parsons, Newmarket, II. 22. His head (like Sullen’s in the play) began to ake consumedly.
1826. Scott, Woodst., xv. The place smells of sulphur consumedly.
1872. Black, Adv. Phaeton, xviii. 254. A small parlour smelling consumedly of gin and coarse tobacco.
1879. McCarthy, Own Times, II. 313. Jokes which set the company laughing consumedly.
