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fastuous, a. Now rare.|ˈfæstjuːəs|
[ad. L. fastuōs-us, f. fastus haughtiness, arrogance: see -ous. Cf. F. fastueux.]
Haughty, arrogant, pretentious, ostentatious.
a1638Mede Paraphr. 2 Pet. iii. 3, Wks. 1672 iii. 616 That supposed fastuous style of Sapores King of Persia to Constantius the Emperour, Rex Regum, etc. 1653Hammond On N.T. Mark vii. 22 Fastuous and vain-glorious behaviour. 1707Collier Refl. Ridic. 101 A pompous display of a fastuous Learning. 1786–8J. Williams Child. Thespis 132 Too fastuous for exquisite passion's digression, Too fair for a hero. 1836M. J. Chapman in Fraser's Mag. XIV. 22 Let no man, With vain conceit and fastuous humour swelling, Sneer idly. 1888Sat. Rev. 6 Oct. 418/1 The..fastuous vates of dysentery.
Hence ˈfastuously adv., in a fastuous manner. ˈfastuousness, the quality of being fastuous.
a1677Barrow Serm. 2 Tim. iii. 2 Wks. 1686 III. 318 Demeaning our selves insolently and fastuously toward them. 1728R. North Mem. Musick (1846) 123 He behaved himself fast[u]ously; no person must whisper while he played. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. Add. §5. 58 Diogenes trampled upon Plato's pride with a greater fastuousnesse and humourous ostentation. a1677Barrow Pope's Suprem. (1680) i. iv. 66 Then there was no fastuousness in the Church. 1752T. Birch Life Tillotson 430 He had nothing of pride or fastuousness. |