1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., V. xxiv. in Ashm. (1652), 154. How eloquently … they clape.
1570. Ascham, Scholem. (Arb.), 140. Carolus Sigonius hath written of late, both learnedlie and eloquentlie.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xxxiii. 204. We have extant the works of Philo and Josephus both Jews, written by them eloquently in Greek.
1849. W. Irving, Goldsmith, i. 20. Pictures, rural and domestic,… which appeal so eloquently both to the fancy and the heart.
¶ b. humorously.
1853. Brimley, Ess., 276. Eloquently drunk.
