adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  In an aristocratic manner; by means of, or with a leaning towards, an aristocracy.

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1594.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., 561. If a citie be assembled … aristocraticallie under certain chiefe lords.

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1624.  Bedell, Lett., x. 127. Geneva was … gouerned Aristocratically.

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1869.  Seeley, Lect. & Ess., i. 14. Augustus was in all things aristocratically disposed.

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  2.  As befits an aristocrat; grandly, stylishly.

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1837.  Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), IV. 262. Every aristocratically dressed man you meet.

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