ostentt (ostent)

[L. ostent us ( ostentu- ), a showing, show, parade, sign, proof; in def. 3, Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there. Shak., M. of V., ii. 8. 44. IMG:content-1903.png:[blocks in formation] Which myraculous ostent , pa ing the ordinary course of naturall causes, as was sent of God, no doubt to foreshew the great and terrible persecution which afterward fell. Foxe , Martyrs, p. 809. Latin us, frighted with this dire ostent , For counsel to his father Faunus went. Dryden, Æneid, vii. 121. ostentt (os-tent'), v . t . [ ostent are , freq. of ostendere , show, display: see ostend . ] To show; make a display of; flourish. There be some that. can ostent or she we a highe grauitie. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, ii. 14. Malice not only discovers, but ostenteth her devilish effects. Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 415. tated, ppr. ostent at ing. [ Who is so open-hearted and simple but they either conceal their defects, or ostent ate their sufficiencies, short or beyond what either of them really are. Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomene , p. 169. The viburnums ostent ate their cymes of fruit. The American, XII. 264.