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

shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting. "The jubilant age." Coleridge. While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Milton.

away. (a) To drive away by laughter; as, to laugh away regret. (b) To waste in hilarity. "Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune." Shak. -- To laugh down. (a) To cause to cease or desist by laughter; as, to laugh down a speaker. (b) To cause to be given up on account of ridicule; as, to laugh down a reform. -- T…

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.

An excess; superfluity. [Obs.] "This overset of wealth and pomp. " Bp. Burnel.

Affected wisdom; pompous dellness. [R.]

Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. "Pageant pomp." Dryden.

A pompano.

Same as Pompano.

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

note of; to disregard. Please you that I may pass This doing. Shak. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples. [Written also Pomptine.]

A portico; a covered walk. [Obs.] Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find find us. Shak. The Porch, a public portico, or great hall, in Athens, where Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples; hence, sometimes used as equivalent to the school of the Stoics. It was called "h poiki`lh stoa`. [See Poicile.]…

a proud port. Spenser. And of his port as meek as is a maid. Chaucer. The necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world. South.

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

Show; ostentation; glory. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. Shak.

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

A pompet. Pumpet ball (Print.), a ball for inking types; a pompet.