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Wealth; riches; affluence. Swift

Having a large estate or property; wealthy; rich; affluent; as, an opulent city; an opulent citizen. -- Op"u*lent*ly, adv. I will piece Her opulent throne with kingdoms. Shak.

To excel in splendor. A throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. Milton.

esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.

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

ged to ascribe (something to some source); to be indebted or obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victoty to his lieutenants. Milton. O deem thy fall not owed to man's decree. Pope.

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

Abounding in money; wealthy; rich. [Obs.] Sherwood.

ssively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.

Plutocracy; the rule of wealth. [R.]

A form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.

One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one of the plutocracy.

The science which treats of wealth.

The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit.

in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

which treats of the sources, and methods of production and preservation, of the material wealth and prosperity of nations.

Meanly; without spirit. Nor is their courage or their wealth so low, That from his wars they poorly would retire. Dryden.

that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions. When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Matt. xix. 22. Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. Acts v. 1. The house of Jaco…

p; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff. Where wealth like fruit on precipices grew. Dryden.

rdinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. Dan. iv. 37. Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. Franklin.…