adv. [f. ELEGANT + -LY2.] In an elegant manner; see senses of the adj. Also in comb. with adjs.

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1552.  Huloet, Elegantlye, eleganter, rotunde.

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1571.  Golding, Calvin on Ps. lix. 17. 228. Hee elegantly putteth the doubtfull speeche in a diverse mening.

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1728.  Young, Love Fame, vi. (1757), 146. She’s elegantly pain’d from morn till night.

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1753.  Hanway, Trav. (1762), II. I. x. 54. Many Hollanders … live elegantly.

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1783.  Ld. Hailes, Antiq. Chr. Ch., vi. 178, note. The latter part of the passage in Lampridius is elegantly paraphrased.

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1858.  W. Ellis, Visits Madagascar, viii. 212. A number of elegantly-bound volumes lay on the table.

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1879.  O. W. Holmes, Motley, ii. 14. Elegantly brutal onslaughts.

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