adv. [f. LANGUID a. + -LY2.] In a languid manner.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys. Mech., xlii. 386. The Menstruum also working as languidly upon the coral, as it did before they were put into the Receiver.
1729. Butler, Serm., Wks. 1874, II. 99. Peevishness … languidly discharges itself upon every thing which comes in its way.
1747. Wesley, Prim. Physick (1762), 86. When the Nerves perform their Office too languidly.
1798. Malthus, Popul. (1817), I. 247. With a population nearly stationary, or at most increasing very languidly.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., v. I. 548. They either neglected it altogether, or executed it languidly and tardily.
