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High-sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

characterized by pomposity of manner. [Eng.]

A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.

e of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering. Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp. Shak.

A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade. He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city. Prescott.

A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

To compose; to constitute. [Obs.] His pomp and all what state compounds. Shak.

Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4. His stately and consequential pace. Sir W. Scott. Consequential damage (Law) (a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable (b) Damage which although remote is actionable. (c)…

With assumed importance; pompously.

with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden.

of contesting with in, when there are hopes of victory. Bp. Burnet. Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest Pope.

The pomp or assembly at a coronation. Pope.

To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. [Archaic.] Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. Shak.

The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).

; challenge. Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers. Chapman. Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to Cæsar. Shak.

To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. Bancroft.

urvived in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.

e haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business. They have dispatched with Pompey. Shak.