consumedly, adv.
(kənˈsjuːmɪdlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2: cf. consume v. 7; probably sometimes associated with consummately.]
Excessively, extremely, hugely.
App. at first = confoundedly, as an expression of execration or dislike; slang of c 1700, which has been handed down by the dramatists of that day, and become a literary affectation.
| 1707 Farquhar Beaux' Strat. ii. i, Sullen. My Head akes consumedly. 1707 Cibber Double Gallant iv. sp. xvi, That Woman..is most consumedly mistaken. 1774 P. Parsons Newmarket II. 22 His head (like Sullen's in the play) began to ake consumedly. 1826 Scott Woodst. xv, The place smells of sulphur consumedly. 1872 Black Adv. Phaeton xviii. 254 A small parlour smelling consumedly of gin and coarse tobacco. 1879 M{supc}Carthy Own Times II. 313 Jokes which set the company laughing consumedly. |