adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a luxurious manner. † a. Lasciviously, lustfully (obs.). b. In the enjoyment of luxury and pleasure; plentifully, sumptuously, voluptuously.
a. c. 1540. trans. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden), I. 260. Emonge the captives was the wife of Sigifredus,… whome the kinges sonn Edmundus hadd long since luxuriuslie deflowred.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., III. xiii. 120. Besides what hotter houres … you haue Luxuriously pickt out.
b. 1605. Daniel, Ulysses & Syren, 15. To spend the time luxuriously Becomes not men of worth.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, iii. Mice and rats … with heroic verse luxuriously were fed.
1796. J. Moser, Hermit of Caucasus, I. 65. The plain abounding in fruits, luxuriously supplied.
1883. Froude, Short Stud., IV. I. xi. 141. Giraldus Cambrensis … found the monks dining more luxuriously than the King.
1900. Edin. Rev., July, 223. A great heiress living luxuriously in London.
