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egregious, a.|ɪˈgriːdʒ(ɪ)əs, -dʒɪəs|
Also 6 æ-, egregius.
[f. L. ēgregi-us, f. ē out + grex, greg-is flock + -ous: hence lit., towering above the flock.]
†1. Prominent, projecting.
1578Banister Hist. Man vii. 92 All the poynt, and egregious portion of the right side of this inuolucre.
2. Remarkable in a good sense:
a. Of persons and personal qualities: Distinguished, eminent, excellent, renowned. Obs. (exc. in humorously pedantic use).
c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 172 Peda, the sonne of Penda, an ægregius yonge gentilmanne. 1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. i. i, Egregious viceroys of these eastern parts. 1609Bible (Douay) Ex. xxxviii. 23 Ooliab..was himself also an egregious artificer in wood. 1656Hobbes Six Less. Wks. 1845 VII. 283, I am not so egregious a mathematician as you are. 1738Birch Milton in Milton's Wks. (1738) I. App. 84 Egregious was their Loyalty and Veneration of Majesty. 1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 53 There is a school book by the egregious John Amos Comenius. 1855Thackeray Newcomes I. 122 When he wanted to draw..some one splendid and egregious, it was Clive he took for a model.
b. Of things: Remarkably good or great. Of events and utterances: Striking, significant. ? Obs.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. ii. (Palfr.) Prol., Certain reserved sentences very egregious lively and excellent. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. iv. 11 Except..thou doe giue to me egregious Ransome. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 220 This is egregious doctrine, and for which one day charity will much thanke them. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 147 It [emulsion] is especially of egregious use in Fevers.
3. Remarkable in a bad sense; gross, flagrant, outrageous. [This sense does not belong to L. egregius or to It. egregio; prob. it arose from an ironical use of 2, though our earliest quotations afford no evidence of this.]
a. of persons and personal attributes.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (1884) 33 Thai them selvs cannot dissemble it without egregius impudenci. 1593Nashe Four Lett. Confut. 67 Egregious is neuer used in english but in the extreame ill part. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. v. 211 Italian Fiend..Egregious murtherer. 1648Milton Observ. Art. Peace (1851) 576 Egregious Liars and Impostors. 1734Fielding Univ. Gallant v. i, He would be an egregious ass who wou'd venture to lay out his money in them [jewels]. 1839James Louis XIV, I. 50 The egregious superstition of the higher orders. 1864Morning Star 13 Sept., Every tradesman..with egregious bonhomie tries to cheat you.
b. of things, actions, etc.
1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentl. (1641) 88 He toucheth severity towards servants, as a hainous and egregious offence. 1709Steele Tatler No. 47 ⁋2 People that want Sense, do always in an egregious Manner want Modesty. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. li. 48 An egregious exercise of tyranny. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. ii. (1828) I. 21 An egregious waste of time. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. II. vii. 426 No blunder could have been more egregious.
4. nonce-use. Wandering from the flock.
1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-Cap 1203 An egregious sheep..Unearthed the image in good Mailleville's time.
Hence eˈgregiousness, the quality of being egregious; the possession of uncommon qualities.
1632Sherwood, Egregiousness, excellence. 1877Times Feb. 19. 12/1 Professor Guthrie pointed out that water..is unusual, and shows egregiousness in its properties. |