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

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  1.  In a lascivious manner, lewdly.

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1546.  Langley, Pol. Verg. De Invent., III. ix. 76 b. Menne & Women were permitted moste lasciuiously to bath together.

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1611.  Beaum. & Fl., King & No K., III. iii. I would desire her loue Lasciuiouslie, leudlie, incestuouslie.

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1624.  Wotton, Archit., I. 37. The Corinthian, is a Columne, lasciuiously decked like a Curtezane.

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1786.  trans. Beckford’s Vathek (1868), 110. A throng of Genii and other fantastic spirits of each sex danced lasciviously in troops.

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  † 2.  (In sense of L. lascīvē.) Sportively. Obs.

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1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 32. A young maid, playing with the bear lasciviously, did so provoke it that he tore her in pieces.

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