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luteously

luteously adverb: in a luteous manner.

Adverb

luteously (comparative more luteously, superlative most luteously)

  1. (literary, rare) In a luteous manner.
    • THough Coriander be a tetrous and graveolent herb, yet is it ſowen and cultivated in Gardens; for its grains by frication depoſe their ingratefull odour, and become ſuaveolent; its ſurcle is very ſlender, round, cubitall, and ramous; its leafes are at firſt like them of Adiantum, laciniated and...1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel...
    • With no eyes for the evasive beauty of the college chapel, its buttresses and architraves now luteously entwined with wreathes of yellow fog, he crossed the dusk-filled quadrangle towards Mongo’s lighted window, puzzled a little. . . .1922, Alfred Budd, The Oxford Circus: A Novel of Oxford and Youth, London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited […], page 103

Forms of luteously

comparativemore luteously
superlativemost luteously

Origin of luteously

From luteous + -ly.

Questions about luteously

What does luteously mean?
Luteously means in a luteous manner.
What part of speech is luteously?
Luteously is an adverb.

Words near luteously in the dictionary

  1. luteotrophins
  2. luteotropic
  3. luteotropin
  4. luteotropins
  5. luteous
  6. luteously
  7. luteoviral
  8. luteovirid
  9. luteovirids
  10. luteovirus
  11. luteoviruses

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