Definition for PROD'I-GAL-LY

PROD'I-GAL-LY, adv.

  1. With profusion of expenses; extravagantly; lavishly; wastefully; as, an estate prodigally dissipated.
  2. With liberal abundance; profusely. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows, / Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. – Dryden.

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