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To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds. Milton.

h up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.

To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up. "His bridling neck." Wordsworth. By her bridling up I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. Tatler.

m, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

h hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom. Prov. xi. 2. All but. See under All. -- But and if, but if; an attempt on the part of King James's translators of the Bible to express the conjunctive and adversative…

ing from the pottery made in Europa at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general. -- Pride of China, China tree. (Bot.) See Azedarach.

's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.

areful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world. Sharp.

Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude. As being one who took no pride, And was a deal too countrified. Lloyd.

The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage. Now the time is come That France must vail her lofty plumed crest. Shak.

ispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak.

e thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. Cowley.

. O miserable mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserved! Milton. He pride . . . struggled hard against this degrading passion. Macaulay.

To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. Whose pride depraves each other better part. Spenser.

To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.

Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of sense; devoid of pity or of pride.

nseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson.

Relating or tending to discontent. [R.] "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.

ion steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises, than pride. Addison.