adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a floating manner.
1660. W. Secker, Nonsuch Prof., 256. The tide that so floatingly brings in the ship, suddenly leaves her in the mud.
1829. Blackw. Mag., XXVI. Dec., 952. Blest the hand that withdraws it, the breath that sighs it floatingly aside, for the first fervid nuptial kiss!
1857. Chamb. Jrnl., VII. 25 April, 272/2, Day.
And spectral form revealed mysteriously | |
Down to her ghostly middle, and the rest | |
All lost in pearly mist, that floatingly | |
Seems her gray garments trailing low on Earths expansive breast. |