Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a capacious manner or degree.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively.

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  • adverb In a capacious manner.

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Examples

  • The children flooded about Aunt Bella like a rising tide and were capaciously hugged and kissed ere they departed with their nurses to the swimming beach.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

  • U.S. courts, including the Supreme Court, have been reluctant to allow the government to use capaciously worded federal statutes in ways that burden activities protected by the First Amendment.

    Payments and News-Gathering: The New First Amendment Threat David B. Rivkin Jr. 2011

  • He is the Molly Ivins of the historical profession, a razor-witted, capaciously well-read scholar and critic of scholars, who is often seen at professional gatherings holding court in the hotel bar or leading a large group out to a fabulous restaurant.

    "Clarence Walker Can't Say Those Things, Can He?" A Review of Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Tenured Radical 2009

  • He is the Molly Ivins of the historical profession, a razor-witted, capaciously well-read scholar and critic of scholars, who is often seen at professional gatherings holding court in the hotel bar or leading a large group out to a fabulous restaurant.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Tenured Radical 2009

  • "Reading this book is to be immersed in India, you feel you are living that life, such is the power of this acute, stubbornly honest, capaciously minded writer to recreate his times."

    A shameless attempt at jumping aboard the Nobel bandwagon 2007

  • "Reading this book is to be immersed in India, you feel you are living that life, such is the power of this acute, stubbornly honest, capaciously minded writer to recreate his times."

    A Different Stripe: 2007

  • Mr. Sennett regards skilled work capaciously, though; it is one form of what economists broadly call human capital.

    The Art of Doing Something Well Brian C. Anderson 2008

  • One advantage to defining “reasoning” capaciously, as here, is that it helps one recognize that the processes whereby we come to be concretely aware of moral issues are integral to moral reasoning more narrowly understood.

    Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

  • And of course I am not arguing against the theological roots of Unitarian Universalism, but I think toward a more capaciously theological sense of these roots...

    Philocrites: Uh oh, it's salvation by hermeneutics. 2006

  • We sipped at small glasses of sweet-smelling tea brought to us by a capaciously girthed Turk and fell into happy conversation or gossip if you prefer, denigrating the pompous and the talent-less who we felt were being preferred over us.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

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