adv. Also 7 spatiously. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  In a spacious house or place.

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1382.  Wyclif, Isaiah xxx. 33. Ther shul be fed in thi possessioun in that day the lomb spaciously [L. spatiose].

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1651.  Davenant, Gondibert, I. vi. 38. Most spaciously we dwell.

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1726.  Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 98/2. He can … receive strangers handsomely and spaciously.

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  2.  Amply; largely.

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1608.  Middleton, Mad World, II. i. Your honour is most spaciously welcome.

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a. 1668.  Davenant, Distresses, IV. i. Though not spaciously Possess’d of Lands, his Honor … May equal any Mans.

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  3.  At great length; with great fulness.

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1605.  Camden, Rem. (1623), 12. Good Lord, how spaciously might a learned pen walke in this argument?

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1652.  Needham, trans. Selden’s Mare Cl., 29. So spaciously did Chizzola dilate in speaking of the opinion of the Lawyers.

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1715.  M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. 8. Those News-mongers were oblig’d to write spaciously, or a great deal.

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  4.  So as to comprehend or cover much space; extensively.

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1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1638), 2. A rough and desart country … spaciously extended euen as far as vnto the Arympheians.

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1687.  Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., II. s.v., A Thing that spreads spaciously.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 625. Membranaceous and internally spatiously cellular.

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  5.  With largeness of manner.

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1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. xi. ‘How Do You Like London?… You find it Very Large?’ said Mr. Podsnap, spaciously.

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