adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a sumptuous manner; at great cost, with great expenditure of money; with magnificence or pomp of living, equipment, decoration, entertainment, etc.
1536. Act 28 Hen. VIII., c. 12 § 1. The Kynges Highnes … moste sumptuously … hath buylded … many … mansions.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. V., 41. The Frenche kyng … sumpteously banquetted theim.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, II. (1895), 264. Thither they sende furth some of their citezeins … to lyue theire sumptuously.
1580–1. Reg. Privy Council Scot., Ser. I. III. 347. The said wardane hes bene verie suumptuuslie superexpendit in the office of wardanrie.
1611. Bible, Luke xvi. 19. There was a certaine rich man, which … fared sumptuously euery day.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 145. A building all of Marble … couered with lead very sumptiously.
1662. J. Davies, trans. Mandelslo’s Trav., 225. The women are very sumptuously clad.
1784. Cowper, Task, IV. 251. Not sumptuously adorn’d, nor needing aid, Like homely featur’d night, of clust’ring gems.
1870. F. R. Wilson, Ch. Lindisf., 76. The whole has been sumptuously colored.
1894. H. Nisbet, Bush Girl’s Rom., 216. He went over to have a friendly chat with the sumptuously-attired Timothy.
b. transf. Splendidly, nobly. rare.
1750. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mann, 18 Oct. Why, child, you will find yourself as sumptuously descended as—‘All the blood of all the Howards.’
