adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. Plentifully, abundantly; in or with abundance.
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 9. Hyr blood owt ran ful copyously.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 29. It is found … most copiously amongst our Whinns or prickly Broom.
1744. Berkeley, Siris, § 77. This medicinal water, drunk copiously.
1879. Proctor, Pleas. Ways Sc., xvi. 366. Dew is only formed copiously in serene weather.
2. With fullness of treatment or expression; fully, profusely.
1530. Whitinton, Tullyes Offices, I. (1540), 2. Plato … might have persuaded with synguler gravytie and copyouslye.
1596. Bell, Surv. Popery, III. ii. 204. Which point I haue proued copiously.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 105. All which does more copiously and fully appear in this Pröeme.
1700. Dryden, Fables, Pref., Wks. (Globe), 495. This subject has been copiously treated by that great critic.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 121. There is none of the writings of Plato which has been more copiously illustrated.
b. With plentiful supply of words.
1860. Hawthorne, Marb. Faun, ix. To express himself copiously in words.
