adv. [f. ELOQUENT + -LY2.] In an eloquent manner. Also fig.

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1471.  Ripley, Comp. Alch., V. xxiv. in Ashm. (1652), 154. How eloquently … they clape.

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1570.  Ascham, Scholem. (Arb.), 140. Carolus Sigonius hath written of late, both learnedlie and eloquentlie.

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1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., III. xxxiii. 204. We have extant the works of Philo and Josephus both Jews, written by them eloquently in Greek.

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1850.  W. Irving, Goldsmith, i. 20. Pictures, rural and domestic … appeal so eloquently to the fancy.

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  ¶ b.  humorously.

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1853.  Brimley, Ess., 276. Eloquently drunk.

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