† portlikeadj.
Obsolete.
Stately, dignified, imposing; = portly adj. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > splendour, magnificence, or pomp > [adjective]
wlonkOE
kine-wurtheOE
reala1325
rialc1330
royalc1400
wlonkfulc1400
statelyc1415
pompousc1425
imperial?1435
pontificalc1440
sumptuous1472
magnific1490
magnificenta1530
statelike1534
pompatic1535
magnificala1538
princely1539
portly1548
regal1561
queen-like?1571
haughty1585
portlike1587
Minerva-like1598
lustrous1605
pompatical1610
pontificial1613
commandinga1616
pompal1616
grand1622
splendid1624
pontifician1629
regifical1656
queenly1791
presidential1804
angeliferous1837
slashing1854
sultanesque1862
pageanted1902
1587 A. Day Shepheards Holidaie in Longus's Daphnis & Chloe sig. K4 And port-like shewe beseeming such a Queene.
1598 T. James tr. G. Du Vair Moral Philos. Stoicks 187 As a sober grauitie maketh a man to be reuerenced of all: so a kinde of portlike and constrained austeritie, makes him to appeare ridiculous and odious vnto all.
a1631 M. Drayton Poly-olbion in Wks. (1748) v. 262/2 Where once the portlike [1612, 1622 portly] oak, and large-limb'd poplar stood.
1632 in J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (ed. 3) Pref. Poem When first this portlike Frontispeece was wrought.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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