adv. [f. BRILLIANT a. + -LY2.] In a brilliant manner, with brilliant effect; brightly, glitteringly, splendidly.

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[Not in Johnson 1755–73.]

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1761.  Bath Chron., 19 March, 1/2. Will the courtly Florio, though brilliantly lolling in a splendid Equipage, enjoy the Heart-felt Happiness [etc.]?

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1813.  Examiner, 22 March, 186/1. The last campaign terminated not only brilliantly but gloriously.

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1815.  Scribbleomania, 33. True star … With radiance poetic, most brilliantly clear.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 615. No other large Irish town is so well cleaned, so brilliantly lighted.

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1882.  Pebody, Eng. Journalism, xvi. (1882), 120. He could write and write brilliantly, in clear, terse, and vigorous English.

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