| 释义 |
pompous, a. (adv.)|ˈpɒmpəs|
Also 5 pompyus, Sc. pomposs, 5–6 -ouse, 5–8 -ose, 6 -os, Sc. -us, 6–7 -eous, 6–8 -ious.
[= F. pompeux full of display (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. pompōsus pompous, stately, solemn, f. pompa pomp: see -ous.]
1. Characterized by pomp or stately show; magnificent, splendid; † processional.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas viii. xxvi. (MS. Bodl. 263) 2 With a gret host, most Pompous in his glorie. 1528Roy Rede me (title-p.), I will ascende makynge my state so hye That my pompous honoure shall never dye. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xix. (1634) 724 They..goe in a long pompous shew to carrie a Pageant of holy oyle. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 60 The Poets bring..upon a stage..all what is pompous, grave, and delightfull. 1720Waterland Eight Serm. 175 Upon this Occasion,..it pleased God, in the most solemn and pompous Manner to proclaim the high Dignity of God the Son. 1738Birch Milton M.'s Wks. 1738 I. 47 The pompous Edition of it [Paradise Lost] printed by Subscription in 1688. 1841Elphinstone Hist. India II. 342 There was a general fair and many processions and other pompous shows. 1896T. F. Tout Edw. I, iv. 82 At the head of a pompous embassy.
2. Characterized by an exaggerated display of self-importance or dignity; boastful, vain-glorious, arrogant; consequential, pretentious, ceremonious; of language: inflated, turgid.
c1386Chaucer Monk's T. 565 Was neuere Capitayn vnder a kyng..moore pompous in heigh presumpcioun Than Oloferne. c1460Wisdom 1125 in Macro Plays, Conforme yow not to þis pompyus glory, But reforme in gostly felynge. 1529More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 225/2 If they kepe few seruauntes we call them nyggardes. If they kepe many we cal them pompouse. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 785 Coming, after a pompous and bragging manner. 1749Chesterfield Lett. (1792) II. 311 In spite of all the pompous and specious epithets he may assume. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 108 It has, however, often been dignified with pompous names. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park viii, Mrs. Rushworth, a well-meaning, civil, prosing, pompous woman, who thought nothing of consequence, but as it related to her own and her son's concerns. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 118 Those who spin pompous theories out of nothing.
comb.1897Flandrau Harvard Episodes 44 In one hand he carried a pompous looking bottle.
B. as adv. = pompously.
1754J. Shebbeare Matrimony (1766) II. 55 The Earl having talked extremely pompous of the Honour and Antiquity of his Family. |