Amply

adv. [f. AMPLE a. + -LY².] In an ample manner.

  1.  Widely, broadly, extensively.

1600.  Chapman, Iliad, XV. 279. Before whom, amply-pac’d, March’d Hector.

1755.  Songs & P. on Costume (1849), 237. Let it keep her bosom warm, Amply stretched from arm to arm.

1859.  Capern, Ball. & Songs, 71. A shady bonnet, Plaited, brown, and amply broad.

  2.  Of things immaterial: To a great extent, in large amount, largely.

1557.  N. T. (Genev.), Ep. Ded. 4. The same promesse was more amply renued to Abraham.

1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., II. iii. 203. His merit, As amply titled as Achilles is.

c. 1744.  Parl. Bill, in Hanway Trav. (1762), I. V. lxxi. 324. [He] shall … enjoy, all the … privileges … as largely, fully, and amply … as any other member.

1781.  J. Moore, Italy (1790), I. xxxvi. 382. To indulge our own curiosity very amply.

  3.  esp. With sufficient fullness to satisfy all demands; fully, abundantly.

1586.  Ld. Burghley, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. 219, III. 5. Naw hath amply confessed.

1596.  Chapman, Iliad, V. 259. Amplywise Athenia.

1605.  Lond. Prodigal, I. i. 223. Whom, God willing … I will see amply satisfied.

1751.  Johnson, Rambl., No. 162, ¶ 8. He … saw his care amply recompensed.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 227. The food taken from the enemy would be amply sufficient.

1873.  Black, Pr. Thule, x. 161. The prophecy was amply fulfilled.

  b.  Hence, Liberally, without stint.

1632.  Heywood, Iron Age, I. II. i. 289. Priam … Could not afford Her god-head more applause, Then amply wee bestow on Helena.

1667.  Milton, P. L., VIII. 362. So amply, and with hands so liberal, Thou hast provided all things.

1714.  Spect., No. 624, ¶ 2. A Course of Virtue will in the End be rewarded the most amply.

1852.  Miss Yonge, Cameos, II. xxx. 319. He amply rewarded the faithful men who had aided him.

  4.  With fullness of expression, copiously; at large.

1651.  Hobbes, Leviathan, IV. xlvi. 372. As I have elsewhere more amply expressed.

1702.  W. J., trans. Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, lxiii. 234. The Prophet Ezekiel speaks also very amply of the power of the Tyrians.

1741.  H. Walpole, Lett. to H. Mann, 7 (1834), I. 23. Amply commented upon in Parliament.

1860.  Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea, x. § 474. That such is the case … has been amply shown in other parts of this work.