Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the style of a palace; sumptuously; splendidly.

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  • adverb In a manner or style befitting a palace.

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Examples

  • He visited many speakeasies, “from mere drinking dens to palatially appointed private houses where you find whole families, including children, dining together with the utmost decorum, the elders taking wine.”

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • He visited many speakeasies, “from mere drinking dens to palatially appointed private houses where you find whole families, including children, dining together with the utmost decorum, the elders taking wine.”

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • He visited many speakeasies, “from mere drinking dens to palatially appointed private houses where you find whole families, including children, dining together with the utmost decorum, the elders taking wine.”

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Joseph Bazalgette designed it palatially because he could.

    Crossness, London - amazing Victorian architecture Hels 2009

  • Joseph Bazalgette designed it palatially because he could.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hels 2009

  • It is not fair or natural that the wealthiest few live so very luxuriously and even palatially, while the working poor who work full time and sometimes have to take two jobs to try to support their families, cannot afford some of the most basic necessities of life, like sufficient food, housing, medicine, utilities, transportation, etc.

    Poverty: America's Hidden Shame 2008

  • Union Station, one of the first of those dividend-built and dividend-building terminals that were to spring up quickly and palatially the country over, rose with a peculiarly American trick out of one of the most squalid sections of the city.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • But western Tennessee afforded nothing finer, and Jackson considered himself palatially housed.

    The Reign of Andrew Jackson Ogg, Frederick A 1919

  • But western Tennessee afforded nothing finer, and Jackson considered himself palatially housed.

    The Reign of Andrew Jackson Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • Baedeker, or other guide-book, with its maps of any historic dwelling and its surroundings, from Chantilly or Fontainebleau to minor ones, to see that this plan, originally devised for the pleasure, success and safety [Page: 137] of the hunt, and later adapted to domination and defence, became next appreciated as affording the finest possible perspectives of the palatially rebuilt chateau.

    Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893

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