Obs. [f. LIGHTSOME a.2 + -LY2.] Clearly, lucidly, manifestly.
c. 1510. More, Picus, Wks. 7/1. The same thing also in his boke, which he entitled de Ente & Vno, lightsomely he treateth.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 381. Gods favour shining more lightsomly had scattered away the clouds of contention.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 23. It is not as yet … made lightsomely famous.
