adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a fashionable manner.
† 1. With respect to the fashion or external form: outwardly, superficially, in appearance. (Cf. FASHIONABLE 2.) Obs.
1614. Bp. Hall, A Recollection of such Treatises, 85. Of those that hold aright concerning Christ, how fewe are there, that doe otherwise than fashionably professe him?
1615. J. Stephens, Satyr. Ess. (ed. 2), 336. A Pettifogging Atturny … may take bribes from both parties, and please both fashionably.
1628. Bp. Hall, Contempl. IV. xii. 74. Neither doth Saul goe fashionably to worke, but does this service heartily.
1656. J. Gauden, A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty, 25. Those many arts and instruments of dressing and adorning, which either ingenuity and civility, or delicacy and luxury had found out, and fashionably used, to gratifie the curiosity, pride, and petulancy of the women of Jerusalem.
2. Conformably to the prevailing fashion or usage, esp. that current in upper-class society.
1628. Earle, Microcosm., A Serving Man (Arb.), 83. A Seruingman … is cast behind his master as fashionably as his sword and cloake are.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac., II. II. ii. (1737), II. 148. However fashionably we may apply the Notion of good Living, ’twill hardly be found that our inward Facultys are able to keep pace with these outward Supplies of a luxuriant Fortune.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1737), II. vi. 215. He might so fashionably and genteelly … have been duelled or fluxed into another world. Ibid., VI. iii. 94. A rotten, fashionably-diseased body.
1781. Cowper, Hope, 92.
| For he, with all his follies, has a mind, | |
| Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind. |
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk. (1849), 125. They were dressed fashionably, but simply.
