adv. [f. LAVISH a. + -LY2.] In a lavish manner.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxvi. 13. They lauishly [L. futiliter] force vpon God whatsoeuer comes at theire tunges ende.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 421. They could not but bee greatly offended, to see the Gentiles so lavishly to vse the thinges prohibited.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., IV. ii. 57. Some about him haue too lauishly Wrested his meaning and Authoritie.
1631. Gouge, God’s Arrows, II. vii. 142. What is violently or fraudulently gotten, will be lavishly spent.
a. 1656. Ussher, Ann., vi. (1658), 354. So lavishly insulting over the fall of so great a person.
1769. Junius Lett. (1804), I. 29. Whether or no the man, who has praised him so lavishly, be himself deserving of praise.
1843. Gallenga, Italy, Past & Pr. (1848), I. p. xxvii. They shed blood lavishly.
1856. Lever, Martins of Cro’ M., 207. No praise of mine—… however lavishly it was squandered—could possibly raise you in your own esteem.
1867. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. vii. 33. If they took with one hand [they] gave lavishly with the other.
