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bombasted, ppl. a.
[f. bombast v., which see for pronunciation.]
†1. Stuffed or padded with cotton-wool; puffed out. Obs.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1877) 55 Stuffed, bombasted and sewed. 1611Markham Countr. Content. (1649) 111 Which Hats are soft bumbasted roules of leather. 1626T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 224 Your garments playted, bumbasted, loose hanged.
2. Inflated, turgid (language). arch.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 266 Vsing such bombasted wordes, as seeme altogether farced full of winde. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creat. xi. §1. 99 With braggodokean and bumbasted words. 1829Southey in Q. Rev. XXXIX. 103 The bombasted heroics of Dryden's tragedy.
†3. Characterized by bombast. Obs.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. i. §8. (1622) 190 Leontinus Gorgias, that bombasted Sophister. 1620Melton Astrolog. 15 The souldiers bumbasted Tongue. |