fulsomely, adv.
(ˈfʌlsəmlɪ)
[f. fulsome + -ly2.]
In a fulsome manner.
† 1. Abundantly, plentifully, fully. Obs.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 17805 (Gött.) Ga we þan fulsumli þeder. c 1350 Will. Palerne 4325 Þann were spacli spices spended al a boute fulsumli at þe ful to eche freke þer-inne. 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy, The foyson and plente Of kyngly fredom unto hye and lowe So fulsomly gan there to reygne and snowe. c 1440 Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxvii, He that woll..fulsomly fele the loue of Jhesu in his sowle. |
2. In a way that causes surfeit or nausea; in a way that offends the senses; cloyingly, sickeningly; disgustingly, loathsomely.
| 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot., Cosmogr. & Descr. Albion iv. (1541) B ij b, Thow sall fynd thaym throw thair intemperance and surfet diet sa fowsumlie growin. 1563 Homilies ii. Repairing Ch. (1859) 274 Suffered Gods House to bee in ruine and decay, to lye uncomely, and fulsomely. 1572 J. Jones Bathes Buckstone 10 b, Neyther with such [euill ayre] as commeth of houses fulsomely kept. 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 91 The very embers whereon he was singed..fumed most fulsomely of his fatty droppings. 1620 Venner Via Recta (1650) 34 It is nauseous and fulsomely sweet. 1708 Brit. Apollo No. 78. 3/1 Who but in the Lushious delight, Which fulsomely Cloys. |
3. In a way that is offensive to good taste (see fulsome 7). † Also, coarsely, obscenely (obs.).
| 1677 Sedley Ant. & Cl. iv. i, Your slighted love..Can you forget? and fulsomely pursue The man with kindness who despises you? 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. 553 Apuleius also..grosly and fulsomely imputes the same to Plato. 1693 Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 34 The Act of Consummation fulsomly describ'd in the very Words of the most Modest amongst all Poets. 1700 Congreve Way of World iv. v, That nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. lxv. 377 Mr. Belford seems..although very complaisant, not so fulsomely so as Mr. Tourville. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 225 The language of these compositions was..fulsomely servile. 1861 Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 444 Praising a king fulsomely during his lifetime. |