adv. [f. FULSOME + -LY2.] In a fulsome manner.
† 1. Abundantly, plentifully, fully. Obs.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 17805 (Gött.). Ga we þan fulsumli þeder.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 4325. Þann were spacli spices spended al a boute fulsumli at þe ful to eche freke þer-inne.
1412–20. Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy.
| That sothfastly the foyson and plente, | |
| Of kyngly fredom unto hye and lowe, | |
| So fulsomly gan there to reygne and snowe. |
c. 1440. Hylton, Scala Perf. (W. de W., 1494), II. xxvii. He that woll haue the lyghte of grace & fulsomly fele the loue of Ihesu in his soule he must forsake all the fals lyght or worldly loue and abide in this derknes.
2. In a way that causes surfeit or nausea; in a way that offends the senses; cloyingly, sickeningly; disgustingly, loathsomely.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot., Cosmogr. & Descr. Albion, iv. (1541), B ij b. Thow sall fynd thaym throw thair intemperance and surfet diet sa fowsumlie growin.
1563. Homilies, II. Repairing Ch. (1859), 274. Suffered Gods House to bee in ruine and decay, to lye uncomely, and fulsomely.
1572. J. Jones, Bathes Buckstone, 10 b. Neyther with such [euill ayre] as commeth of houses fulsomely kept.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 91. The very embers whereon he was singed … fumed most fulsomely of his fatty droppings.
1620. Venner, Via Recta (1650), 34. It is nauseous and fulsomely sweet.
1708. Brit Apollo, No. 78. 3/1. Who but in the Lushious delight, Which fulsomely Cloys.
3. In a way that is offensive to good taste (see FULSOME 7). † Also, coarsely, obscenely (obs.).
1677. Sedley, Ant. & Cl., IV. i.
| Cæs. Go, serve th’ Egyptian, learn to dress her head: | |
| Your slighted love and your neglected bed | |
| Can you forget? and fulsomely pursue | |
| The man with kindness who despises you! |
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 553. Apuleius also … grosly and fulsomely imputes the same to Plato.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, Ded. (1697), 34. By applying them to another Sense, they are made a Relation of a Wedding-Night; and the Act of Consummation fulsomly describ’d in the very Words of the most Modest amongst all Poets.
1700. Congreve, Way of World, IV. v. That nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. lxv. 377. Mr. Belford seems … although very complaisant, not so fulsomely so as Mr. Tourville.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 225. The language of these compositions was … fulsomely servile.
1861. Pearson, Early & Mid. Ages Eng., 444. Praising a king fulsomely during his lifetime.
