adv. [f. SUPERB a. + -LY2.] In a superb manner.
1. With a magnificent or majestic aspect or demeanor.
1762–3. Churchill, Ghost, IV. 1174. With labour’d visible design Art strove to be superbly fine.
1812. J. Wilson, Isle of Palms, III. 825. He calmly views The gallant vessel toss Her prow superbly up and down.
1865. Ellen C. Clayton, Cruel Fortune, I. 172. The Countess swept superbly from the room.
1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 184. A mountain seen from different sides by many lands, itself superbly solitary.
2. With sumptuous provision, equipment, adornment or decoration.
1761. Churchill, Apology, 151. For me let hoary Fielding bite the ground, So nobler Pickle stand superbly bound.
1772. Wilkes, Corr. (1805), IV. 138. I went to Deptford; and dined most agreeably, as well as superbly, on board an East Indian ship.
1784. trans. Beckford’s Vathek (1868), 73. Vathek came close after, superbly robed.
1835. Lytton, Rienzi, I. i. Their steeds caparisoned superbly.
3. Very finely, splendidly.
1828. Lytton, Pelham, I. xi. She supplied the place of the dilapidated baronet with a most superbly mustachioed German.
1863. Ellen C. Clayton, Queens of Song, II. 145. She was equally grand as Semiramide and as Arsace, and sang the music of both parts superbly.
1892. Photogr. Ann., II. p. lxvii. The most fascinating of all paper Printing Methods. Gives the most superbly finished pictures.
