[f. LEISURE + -LY1.]
1. Of persons: Having leisure or unoccupied time; proceeding without haste.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 515. With these and manifold other antiquities, Gillius can best acquaint the more leasurely Reader.
1816. Coleridge, Lay Serm., 318. The men of leisurely minds.
1824–9. Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. 1846, II. 236. The leisurely and rich agriculturist, who goeth out a-field after dinner.
2. Of actions or agents: Performed or operating at leisure or without haste; deliberate.
1604. E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, VII. ii. 500. They spent fourescore yeares in this manner of leisurely travell, the which they might have done in a moneth.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 159, ¶ 4. Upon a more leisurely Survey of it.
1746. Berkeley, Sec. Let. Tar-water, § 10, Wks. 1871, III. 475. The same medicine … is a leisurely alterative in chronical disorders.
1875. J. H. Bennet, Winter Medit., IV. xix. 614. A leisurely journey across the south of France.
