单词 | fastuously |
释义 | fastuouslyadv. Now rare. In a fastuous way or manner; esp. haughtily, arrogantly, with excessive pride, vanity, or self-importance; (later also) in a manner characterized by ostentation or indulgence; showily, extravagantly, expensively. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adverb] fastuously1654 pensily1725 with one's head in the air1788 pretentiously1848 uppishly1911 snottily1927 snootily1940 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adverb] boggishlya1375 with great renowna1400 jettingly1440 flourishingly?1545 rufflingly1575 flaunt-a-flaunt1576 peacock-like1576 peacockwise1577 peacockly1580 aflaunt1584 vauntingly1593 wealth boastingly1593 prankingly1610 fastuously1654 ostentativelya1658 ostentously1665 ostentatiously1671 showily1755 violently1771 paradingly1792 peacockically1834 peacockishly1834 pretentiously1848 ostensibly1855 slangily1858 peacocky1860 splurgily1887 swankily1924 glitzily1982 1654 J. Crandon Mr. Baxters Aphorisms Exorized & Anthorized i. xxiv. 293 Bare negations of Conclusions being the best way of answering, where they are peremptorily, and fastuously posited, without any premissed reasons from whence to draw them. 1728 R. North Mem. Musick in R. North on Music (1959) xiv. 355 He [sc. Nicola Matteis] was heard play at Court but his manner did not take, and he behaved himself fastously; no person must whisper while played, which sort of attention had not bin the fashion at Court. 1840 Manch. Courier 5 Dec. 4/4 He mounts the tribune and fastuously proclaims it to have been his intention to wage war against the parties to the treaty of July. 1881 H. M. Trollope tr. C. Letourneau Sociol. based upon Ethnogr. iii. xiii. 240 In Siam the bodies of the chiefs are burned at great expense upon a fastuously-arranged funeral pile [Fr. sur un fastueux bûcher], erected at great cost both of time and money. 1949 M. F. K. Fisher Alphabet for Gourmets 121 I forget what it used to cost, in those happy vanished days, to lunch and loll and sup thus fastuously. 1964 P. White Burnt Ones 245 The great cat, after entering the room fastuously, trying out his eyes, his claws, had begun to back against the furniture, his thrilling tail perfectly erect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1654 |
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