floridly, adv.
(ˈflɒrɪdlɪ)
[f. florid a. + -ly2.]
In a florid manner; esp. with respect to speech.
| 1667 H. Stubbe in Phil. Trans. II. 500 Their Spleen is Triangular..and floridly red. 1667 H. More Div. Dial. ii. xiv. (1713) 131 You have apologized more floridly and rhetorically for me than [etc.]. 1739 Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 40 By endeavouring to be floridly grateful I talk'd nonsense. 1881 Macm. Mag. XLIII. 386/2 A floridly sensational religious novel. |