adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a voluptuous manner; so as to gratify or indulge the senses; luxuriously; sensually.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, II. x. (Skeat), l. 18. Heritykes, sayn they, chosen lyf bestial, that voluptuously liven.
1549. Latimer, 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 128. To eate and drincke in the forgetfulnes of goddes commaundement, voluptuously, in excesse and glotonnie.
1602. Fulbecke, Pandects, 78. The people of Sodom and Gomorra voluptuously mingling themselues with the women of the Moabites.
a. 1639. W. Whateley, Prototypes, II. xxvi. (1640), 21. It is a sin to live voluptuously, to have none other calling but pastimes and vaine sports.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., V. 212. Alfred enjoying three years of peace, by him spent, as his manner was, not idlely or voluptuously, but in all vertuous emploiments both of mind and body.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, XIII. vi. The Hopes of seeing Sophia at the Masquerade, on which … he had voluptuously feasted during the whole Day.
1786. trans. Beckford’s Vathek, 82. Vathek (voluptuously reposed in his capacious litter upon cushions of silk …) was soundly asleep.
1805. Wordsw., Prelude, I. 251. Ah! better far than this, to stray about Voluptuously through fields and rural walks.
1857. Dickens, Dorrit, I. xx. She … composed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xlv. The cool, well-shaded, voluptuously-furnished room.
