Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excellent; eminent; distinguished.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Pre-eminent ,outstanding .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Neil MacGregor, the BM's eximious director and presenter of Radio 4's "History of the World in One Hundred Objects" , accurately stated that "this exhibition is a fantastic example of collaboration between the British Museum and its partners across the UK."
British Museum handsomely fulfils its duties to England outside London 2011
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Is it so exaltated, eximious, extraoldandairy and excels-siorising? —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Whence we may observe, — First, That the greatest and most eximious expression of the love of God towards believers is in sending his Son to die for them, not sparing him for their sake; this is made the chief of all.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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The hokum and horsefeathers are, alas, infectious: here and there in this wretched text are signed interpolations by the eximious director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery himself, snippets of schoolboy art history declaring, for example, that in The Runaway and Young
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There is that eximious infatuation with language, the sheer, lush love of the sound for the sound of it, sense be damned.
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His sensations, on entering this vast repository of arms, were not unlike those attributed to a personage whose fictitious adventures, though the production of a _Feringhi_ pen, present one of the most faithful pictures extant of the genuine feelings of an oriental on Frank matters: -- "When we came to the guns," says the eximious Hajji Baba, "by my beard, existence fled from our heads!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. "
languagehat.com 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word eximious
A word which describes itself.
August 16, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word eximious
Some rather bad poetry from "Punch", which was, I suppose, the "Onion" of its day. For some reason all the online dictionaries can only come up with the first stanza of this as an example for 'eximious'. I find this deplorable.
THE HERCULES CHEAP PALETOT.
You've read the death of Hercules,
In classic tale related ;
But there the facts of his decease
Erroneously are stated :
Each schoolboy will at large recite
Fast as his Alphabeta,
How that eximious man of might
Departed on Mount Œta.
The hero, haying ceased to rove,
'Tis said, his labours ended,
To sacrifice to Father Jove,
That mountain steep ascended.
Desirous proper clothes to don,
Such as he would look nice in,
He put a Centaur tunic on,
To offer sacrifice in.
This tunic having been imbued
With Hydra's deadly poison,
Itself unto the wearer glued,
Like plaster with Spain's flies on.
Not to come off—the income-Tax
A blister of the sort is—
It stuck to him like cobbler's wax,
And stung like aqua fortis.
Such direful pangs convulsed his frame,
And pierced through bone and marrow,
That Hercules felt much the same
As toad beneath a harrow ;
Such agonies his nerves did rive,
Did trouble, vex, and tease him ;
He chose to burn himself alive,
As thinking fire would ease him.
Now, this same story is a myth,
Or mystical narration,
In which there is of truth a pith,
Involved in fabrication.
The vest that poison'd Hercules
Was bought from a slop-seller ;
It was the virus of disease
That rack'd the monster-queller.
Twas Typhus, which the garment caught
Of Misery and Famine,
Hands that for some cheap tailor wrought ;
The Hydra-story's gammon.
Such clothes are manufactured still ;
And you're besought to try 'em
In poster, puff, placard, and bill -
— If you are wise, don't buy 'em.
May 20, 2010