adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a fastidious manner; † disdainfully; squeamishly, with excessive scrupulousness of taste.
1624. Gataker, A Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation, 42. Nor is the frame of this Authors discourse such as hee describeth his to haue beene in that worke, to wit, fastidiously and childishly, or youthfully at least, full of Logicke rules and tearmes, for which himselfe maketh an Apologie.
1654. Hammond, Acc. Cawdrey’s Triplex Diatribe, v. § 17. Discriminating themselves proudly and fastidiously from other men.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 33. Could the legislature have fastidiously rejected the fair and abundant choice which our own country presented to them, and searched in strange lands for a foreign princess, from whose womb the line of our future rulers were to derive their title to govern millions of men through a series of ages?
1841. Disraeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 128. Critics fastidiously rejecting what they deem the antiquated.
1880. Disraeli, Endym., I. xxi. 193. A couple of grooms, who sat with folded arms and unmoved countenances, fastidiously stolid amid all the fun.
