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Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.

Splendid. [Obs.]

In a splendid manner; magnificently.

The quality of being splendid.

Splendid. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind. Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen. Gen. xli. In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed. Trumbull.

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.

In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.

Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.

The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" Macauly.

e of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools. Cowper.

Crimson. [Obs.] A splendid seignior, magnificent in cramoisy velevet. Motley.

Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid. "Effulgent rays of light." Cowper.

native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn.

In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly. Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel. Shak.

A splendid assemblage of persons or things.

Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. The town is built in a very gallant place. Evelyn. Our royal, good and gallant ship. Shak.

Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed. Why is my neighbor's wife so gay Chaucer. A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dressMilton.

Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.

A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden.