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Buxomly

Buxom \Bux"om\, a. [OE. buxum, boxom, buhsum, pliable, obedient, AS. b[=o]csum, b[=u]hsum (akin to D. buigzaam blexible, G. biegsam); b[=u]gan to bow, bend + -sum, E. -some. See Bow to bend, and -some.]

  1. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.]

    So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see.
    --Spenser.

    I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.
    --Foxe.

  2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.

    A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.
    --Milton.

    A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.
    --Tatler.

  3. having a pronounced womanly shape. [chiefly dialect]

    Syn: bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] -- Bux"om*ly, adv. -- Bux"om*ness, n.

Wiktionary
buxomly

adv. In a buxom way.

WordNet
buxomly

adv. in a curvaceous way; "his date was curvaceously beguiling" [syn: curvaceously]

Usage examples of "buxomly".

And they with humble heart full buxomly,* *obediently Kneeling upon their knees full reverently, Him thanked all.

And they with humble entente, buxomly, Knelynge upon hir knees ful reverently Hym thonken alle, and thus they han an ende Of hir entente, and hoom agayn they wende.