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capaciously

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English

Etymology

From capacious + -ly.

Adverb

capaciously (comparative more capaciously, superlative most capaciously)

  1. In a capacious manner.
    • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
      But my Leech—a leech
      Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings,
      Capaciously expatiative, which make
      His little body like a red balloon,
      As full of blood as that of hydrogene,
      Sucked from men’s hearts
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