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Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style. Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

lude. [Obs.] Nares. He promised us, in honor of our guest, To grace our banquet with some pompous jest. Kyd.

y style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.

Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.

Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous. When Rome's exalted beauties I descry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie. Addison.

The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. -- Mag*nil"o*quent*ly, adv.

Affected wisdom; pompous dellness. [R.]

Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift.

Pompous. [Obs.] Barrow.

The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.

To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade. Swift.

To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance. Then came brave Glory puffing by. Herbert.

In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.

The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.

Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant.

To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. Pray, spout some French, son. Beau. & Fl.

Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. Stilted arch (Arch.), an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or ornamented, as a continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc.…

Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.

To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.