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eximious, a. Now rare.|ɛgˈzɪmɪəs|
[f. L. eximi-us excepted, select, choice (f. eximĕre: see exempt v.) + -ous.
Common in 17th c. literature: the few examples in 19th c. are humorously bombastic or pedantic.]
Excellent, distinguished, eminent.
1547Boorde Brev. Health ccxxxvi, Kynges, and kynges sones, and other noble men hath ben eximious Phisicions. 1619W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 236 Things..eximious and eminent in loue aboue many other Graces. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 502 This syrupe is eximious against many affections. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 709 Our Saviour Christ, was unquestionably, that One Eximious Prophet, which God..promised to send. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus ii. 187 There is in this Relation an eximious example of the Magical venome of Witches. 1710R. Ward Life H. More 22 This Eximious Person. 1829T. L. Peacock Misfort. Elphin. 103 All [were] the most eximious and transcendent persons of the earth. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xiii. ii, Oh ye wigs, and eximious wig⁓blocks, called right-honourable. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 109 The picture be for our eximious Rome.
Hence † eˈximiously, in an ‘eximious’ manner; excellently, notably, singularly. Also † eˈximiousness, the quality of being ‘eximious’.
1650W. Sclater (Jun.) in W. Sclater's Exp. Rom. iv. Ep. Ded., It being so eximiously beautified. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 505 It is most eximiously medicinal. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. ii. 42 Is not this part of the Prophecy also eximiously fulfilled? 1730–6Bailey (folio), Eximiousness. Hence1775Ash, Eximiousness. |