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Definition of Fancifully
1. Adverb. In a fanciful manner. "The Christmas tree was fancifully decorated"
Definition of Fancifully
1. Adverb. In a fanciful manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fancifully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fancifully
Literary usage of Fancifully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1855)
"... seems to have been fancifully transferred to its present position as a suitable
addition to the tomb of the Roches; but at what time is unknown. ..."
2. Encyclopædia of the Laws of England with Forms and Precedents by the Most by Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Anderson Robertson, Frederick Pollock, William Bowstead (1906)
"ever, been fancifully connected with a taint or stain, and has thus widely departed
from its original meaning. Attainder means neither a conviction nor the ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1851)
"... fancifully characteristic of their habits and their feelings. INTRODUCERS OF
EXOTIC FLOWERS, FRUITS, ETC. There has been a class of men whose patriotic ..."
4. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by Baba Padmanji, James Thomas Molesworth (1863)
"Words falling from people conversing on their own affairs, and fancifully wrested
by a person overhearing them, into connection with some subject which he ..."
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