fastuousadj.

?1591 H. Barrow Brief Discouerie False Church 224 The Church neither doth neither may giue immoderate honour either in fastuous swelling titles of vanitie, or any inordinate authoritie to anie member.

1653 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. Mark vii. 22 Fastuous and vain-glorious behaviour.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 101 A pompous display of a fastuous Learning.

1836 M. J. Chapman in Fraser's Mag. 14 22 Let no man, With vain conceit and fastuous humour swelling, Sneer idly.

1949 Classical Philol. 44 272/2 The origin of language is a major mundane mystery, and therefore a question interdict by the Société de linguistique and all the fastuous fantoccini who ape it.

2015 University Wire (Carlsbad) 4 Dec. The Catholic Kings, Isabel and Fernando, received Christopher Columbus on his momentous return from his first voyage to the New World with fastuous fanfare in Catalonia's capital, Barcelona.

1753 tr. F. Génard School of Man 231 Whenever he preached, the Pulpit rang with Declamations against the fastuous Luxury of the Prelates, the Emptiness of worldly Grandeurs, the Age being over-run with Selfishness, and Merit discountenanced.

1868 Examiner 26 Sept. 609/1 The Emperor Napoleon, after playing the host with fastuous splendour, at his palace at Fontainebleau, to the daughter of the Queen of Spain and her husband, the Count Girgenti, withdrew to Biarritz last week for reflection and repose.

1968 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 May 500/3 He made his court at Bourges the most magnificent in France at a period when fastuous living was very much the order of the day.