adv. [f. AUGUST a. + -LY2.] In a manner calculated to inspire reverential awe or wonder; grandly, majestically.

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1667.  G. C., in H. More’s Div. Dial., Pref. (1713), 9. That which makes Des Cartes his Philosophy look so augustly on’t.

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1742.  Young, Nt. Th., II. 688. Undarken’d by despair, Philander, thus, augustly rears his head.

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1861.  Sat. Rev., 6 April, 340/1. What are the pediments of the Parthenon … beside this augustly simple image?

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