The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnificently \Mag*nif"i*cent*ly\, adv. In a Magnificent manner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"in a splendid manner," early 15c.; see magnificent + -ly (2).
Wiktionary
adv. In a magnificent manner.
WordNet
adv. in a splendid manner; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got along famously" [syn: splendidly, famously]
in an impressively beautiful manner; "the Princess was gorgeously dressed" [syn: gorgeously, splendidly, resplendently]
Usage examples of "magnificently".
Some are wicked--shamelessly, insolently, magnificently wicked--like those scarlet anthuriums, with their curling yellow tongues.
The small but magnificently equipped airforce of the expedition was flying unopposed over the Ambo mountains, observing all troop movements and pouncing immediately on any Ethiopian concentrations.
In contrast to the austere white dress of the Archimage, the newcomer was magnificently attired in gauzy but voluminous robes of a rich crimson color, and she wore a golden collar and bracelets all studded with multicolored gem-stones.
Magnificently attired, the Marquis of Buckingham as far outshone his companions in splendour of habiliments as he did in stateliness of carriage and beauty of person.
We shall argue that, in the case of mankind, and pre-eminently in the case of woman, this enrichment and development of the individual life is best and most surely attained by parenthood or foster-parenthood, made self-conscious and provident, and magnificently transmuted by its extension and amplification upon the psychical plane in the education of children and, indeed, the care and ennoblement of human life in all its stages.
Nor must I omit to mention the valiant achievements of Antony Van Corlear, who, for a good quarter of an hour, waged stubborn fight with a little pursy Swedish drummer, whose hide he drummed most magnificently, and whom he would infallibly have annihilated on the spot, but that he had come into the battle with no other weapon but his trumpet.
He will repurchase the Hotel de Sairmeuse, and furnish it magnificently.
We have scowered these three nights so magnificently that we were taken for your cousin, Sir Humphrey Blockhead-Swash and his company.
When the Great Tergiversator rises in this House to deliver one of his magnificently worded and delivered speeches, rest assured there is always a hidden motive!
I noticed that she kept darting little glances at Senora Seixas, who was nearly as big as her husband, with a great trembling bosom and thick white arms ajangle with bracelets, but who moved with the grace of a former dancer and carried her plain blue frock magnificently.
The buildings had been magnificently restored to their former luster by a host of Kundalan craftsfolk, much to the invidious talk of the other Bashkir families.
Certainly whatever relics lay so magnificently preserved had to be valuable, as the contents of stasis boxes usually were.
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As Domini watched her she felt that Irena must have lived at moments magnificently, that despite her almost shattered condition and permanent weariness--only cast aside for the moment of the dance--she must have known intense joys, that so long as she lived she would possess the capacity for knowing them again.
Then again, in a narrow courtyard, a simple boy, who looks after a dovecote, is magnificently told.