adv. [f. FLORID a. + -LY2.] In a florid manner; esp. with respect to speech.
1667. H. Stubbe, in Phil. Trans., II. 500. Their Spleen is Triangular, and of a firm flesh (no Parenchyma) and floridly red.
1667. H. More, Div. Dial., II. xiv. (1713), 131. You have apologized more floridly and rhetorically for me than I could have done for myself.
1739. Cibber, Apol. (1756), I. 40. Like a lover in the fulness of his content, by endeavouring to be floridly grateful I talk’d nonsense.
1881. F. Hitchman, The Penny Press, in Macm. Mag., XLIII. March, 386/2. Usually consists of a large instalment of a floridly sensational religious novel, depicting the influence of evangelical theology upon the manners and morals of the upper classes.
