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Finical; unduly particular. [Colloq.]

To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.

One who is unduly anxious about trifles. [R.] I am a fuss and I don't deny it. W. D. Howell.

r-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion. [Usually under the form hobby.] Not one of them has any hobbyhorse, to use the phrase of Sterne. Macaulay.

A paper having on it these letters, with a sum named, and duly signed; -- in use in England as an acknowledgment of a debt, and taken as evidence thereof, but not amounting to a promissory note; a due bill. Wharton. Story.

Not appreciable; too small to be perceived; incapable of being duly valued or estimated. Hallam.

Not accordant with duty or morality; not duly regulated or subordinated; unbecoming; improper; as, incorrect conduct. It shows a will most incorrect to heaven. Shak. The wit of the last age was yet more incorrect than their language. Dryden.

To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.

To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively. Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells. G. Eliot. They are not intoxicated by military success. Jowett (Thuc. ).

Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.

A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.

-- distinguished from letters patent. Burrill. -- Letters of orders (Eccl.), a document duly signed and sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has regularly ordained a certain person as priest, deacon, etc. -- Letters patent, overt, or open (Eng. Law), a writing executed and sealed, by which power and auth…

One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments. Addison.

To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will. Milton.

Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.

Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton.

One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.

According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly. You are blunt; go to it orderly. Shak.

[Poetic] Chaucer. Shak. Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began Their orisons, each morning duly paid. Milton.

Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful. Far from being ostentatious of the good you do. Dryden. The ostentatious professions of many years. Macaulay. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ness, n.