grandiloquous (grandilokwus)

[= Sp. grandilocuo = Pg. grand i loco, grandiose (gran'di-ōs), a. [ Hardly anything could seem more grandiose, or fitter to revive in the breasts of men the memory of great dispensations by which new strata had been laid in the history of mankind. George Eliot, Romola, xxi. The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down, in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole. M. Arnold, Its proportions so simple and grandiose . Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 112. 2. Characterized by self-display or bombast; vulgarly showy or flaunting; grandiloquent; swollen; turgid: as, a grandiose style. This attenuated journal had. an aldermanic, portly, grandiose, Falstaffian title. Bulwer , Caxtons, x. 6. Now and then, to be sure, we come upon something that makes us hesitate again whether, after all, Dryden was not grandiose rather than great. Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 63. grandiosely (gran'di-os-li), adv . In a grand i ose manner. "You will never persuade me to turn my back upon an old friend in adversity," she answers grandiosely . R. Brought on, Second Thoughts, ii. 2. [ grand i grandiosity (gran-di-os'i-ti), n. osité (= Sp. grand ios i dad = Pg. grandiosidade ), ner. manner; greatly; splendidly; sublimely. grandma (grand'mä), n. A colloquial abb rev i grandmamma (grand'ma-mä"), n. A familiar ation of grandmamma. term for grandmother. Your prudent grand - mammas, ye modern belles, When health requir'd it would consent to roam, Else more attached to pleasures found at home. ... Cowper , Retirement, 1. 515. grand-mercyt, interj. An earlier form of gra mercy. Chaucer. grandmother (grand' murh"ėr), n. [ ter, and grandchild. grauntsire, gransyre, graunser, 2. By extension, any lineal male ancestor preceding a father. Some sorcerer, whom a far-off grandsire burnt Because he cast no shadow. Tennyson, Prince , i. 3. In change - ringing : (a) One of the methods of ringing the changes on a peal of bells: sup- posed to be of very early origin. (b) See dou- ble , n., 9 (f). grandson (grand's un), n. [ grand + son.] The son or male offspring of a son or daughter: correlative to grandfather and grandmother . He... left his coal all turn'd into gold To a grandson , first of his noble line. IMG:content-2577.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2578.png:[blocks in formation]