adv. Also 7 giovially. [-LY2.] In a jovial manner; † under the influence of Jupiter; with jollity or hearty mirth.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, II. xii. (1634), 305. So are they more or lesse merrily and Giovially, or rudely and Saturnally incorporated.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iii. III. (1676), 203/1. The rich man lives like Dives Iovially heere on Earth.

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1632.  Brome, North. Lasse, Ded. A Countrey Lass … that Minerva-like was a brayn-born Child, and Jovially begot.

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1704.  C. Johnson, Epil. Cory’s Metamorphosis. Let us but Jovially jog on together.

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1861.  Dickens, Lett. (ed. 2), II. 146. We dined together jovially.

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1875.  W. S. Hayward, Love agst. World, 44. ‘That’s right,’ said the old squire, jovially.

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