adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] † a. Grossly, greasily. † b. Plentifully. c. To a great extent, largely, d. Like a fat person, clumsily.
1515. Barclay, Egloges, iv. (1570), C v/1.
| And some beast agayne still leane and poore is seene, | |
| Though it fatly fare within a medowe greene. |
1611. Cotgr., Graissement, fatly, grossely, greasily.
1866. Whipple, Char. & Charac. Men, 322. An old dowager lady, fatly invested in commerce and manufactures.
1866. Howells, Venet. Life, xi. 160. Renaissance angels and cherubs in marble, floating and fatly tumbling about on the broken arches of the altars.
1873. Miss Broughton, Nancy, I. viii. 131–2. Yes: I am plain; not offensively so, not largely, fatly, staringly plain, but in a small blonde harmless way.
