adv. rare. [f. prec. + -LY2.] = EXQUISITELY.

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1660.  Boyle, Seraph. Love, xxiv. (1700), 145. How exquisitively the several Parts of Scripture are fitted to the several Times, Persons, and Occurrences.

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1662.  Evelyn, Chalcogr., iv. Leonardo … cut exquisitively in wood.

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1836.  E. Howard, R. Reefer, lxvi. The white, exquisitively-shaped … arm of the lady.

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1878.  P. Bayne, Purit. Rev., iv. 103. She had an organisation exquisitively sensitive to beauty in painting.

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