outˈrageously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an outrageous manner: a. To an immoderate degree, excessively, extravagantly; violently, furiously; b. In violation or with shameless disregard of law, morality, or humanity; atrociously, flagrantly.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter xxx[i]. 7 Þou hatid þe kepand vanytes outrageusly. Ibid. Cant. 501 Þaim þat lufis þis life outrageusly. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 205 Julius Cesar..dede outrageousliche aȝenst þe customs and fredom of Rome. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xxii. 239 He may despende ynow, and outrageously. 1474 Caxton Chesse ii. iv. C v b, Which supposid that hit had been his squyer that he entretid so outragyously. 1517 R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 59 All nyght it blew owtrageowsly. c 1540 tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 257 Hee fell to the grownde, crienge owtrageuslie that hee was slaine. 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 27 It is good that this outragiously wicked madnesse be bewraied. 1625 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iv. ii. 239 Nobody durst speake to him thus outragiously fuming. 1713 Steele Englishm. No. 1. 3, I was most outragiously insulted by that Rascal of yours. 1854 De Quincy War Wks. IV. 283 It gives a colourable air of justice..to a war which is, in fact, the most outrageously unjust. |