"Splendidious" Quotes from Famous Books
... introduced or endorsed by illustrious names, had been admitted on the strength of their recommendation; if 'torve' and 'tetric' (Fuller), 'cecity' (Hooker), 'fastide' and 'trutinate' (State Papers), 'immanity' (Shakespeare), 'insulse' and 'insulsity' (Milton, prose), 'scelestick' (Feltham), 'splendidious' (Drayton), 'pervicacy' (Baxter), 'stramineous', 'ardelion' (Burton), 'lepid' and 'sufflaminate' (Barrow), 'facinorous' (Donne), 'immorigerous', 'clancular', 'ferity', 'ustulation', 'stultiloquy', ... — English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench |