handsomely

Regarding a person's action: in a handsome or good-looking manner.

a handsomely brooding man

In a manner conforming to accepted standards of behaviour; appropriately, decently, graciously; also (more strongly), generously, magnanimously.

I was handsomely praised for my part in stopping the robber.

In an elegant or graceful manner; elegantly, gracefully, neatly, nicely.

She can lulle a childe as hãſomly [hansomly] a ſlepe as it were a woman of thirty yere olde: […]

[E]uerie morning after they are ryſen, they folde vp their ſheetes hanſomlie, laying them in the middeſt of the Bed, ⁊ ſo rowle it vp to one ende, couering it with the Quilt, that is their Couerlet all the night time.

With an attractive or elegant appearance; attractively, finely, splendidly.

to dress handsomely

Chiefly regarding speech or writing: cleverly, skilfully.

Yes, there requireth alſo, that he knowe the nature ⁊ cauſe of the wounde or ſore, and that he can well order his plaiſters and oyntementes, and alſo vſe handſomely the ſaide inſtrumentes.

Yea, vvhen Proteſtants object againſt St. Peter’s being at Rome, becauſe St. Paul, in his Epiſtle to the Romans, omitteth to name or ſalute him; The Ieſuite handſomely anſvvers, That Peter vvas then probably from home, employed in Preaching in Britain, and other places.