adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In an extravagant manner; to an extravagant degree.
† 1. In an irregular position or manner; in no fixed order. Obs.
1623. Markham, Countr. Content., ii. 126. Setting the Sallets extrauagantly about the table. Ibid. (1625), Souldiers Accid., 45. The Corporalls … office is … to ride extravagantly vp and downe on either side the Troope.
2. In a manner transgressing the bounds of reason or propriety; † usurpingly, encroachingly; in later use, with extravagance or undue violence of feeling or expression.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., VI. (1703), II. 53. The two Houses having extrajudicially and extravagantly nominated their own Divines.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 13. Who have so extravagantly attributed both powers to be in the King.
a. 1700. Dryden, Ovid’s Met., IX. (1717), 327 (J.).
| Her Passion was extravagantly new, | |
| But mine is much the madder of the two. |
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 246, ¶ 8. They so extravagantly aim at what they are unfit for.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 369. The famous fall … is … extravagantly and ludicrously described.
1809–10. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 136. Their antagonists flew off as extravagantly from the sober good sense of our forefathers.
1858. J. G. Holland, Titcomb’s Lett., iii. 35. Everybody now dresses extravagantly.
3. In an excessive degree; to an excess.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, II. (1724), I. 292. This Act … being extravagantly severe.
1743. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann (1834), I. lxxv. 271. Sold … for £300,000 a year, and that was reckoned extravagantly dear.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, II. ii. 88. The Crime of Idolatry, to which all Mankind were then extravagantly prone.
1890. Spectator, 15 Feb., 230/1. Extravagantly fertile regions.
4. In a too expensive manner; with wasteful profusion or prodigality.
Mod. The house was extravagantly furnished.
