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glorious, a.|ˈglɔərɪəs|
Forms: 4–6 glorio(u)se, -ius, gloryous, (5 gloryowse, 6 Sc. glori-, gloryuss, glorous), 3– glorious.
[a. AF. glorious = OF. glorieus, -os, Pr. glorios, Sp., Pg., It. glorioso, ad. L. glōriōsus, f. glōria glory: see -ous.]
†1. Boastful; ostentatious, fond of splendour; proud, haughty; vainglorious. Obs.
1382Wyclif Prov. xxv. 14 A man glorious and the behestes not fulfillende. c1440York Myst. xvi. 19, I am fairer of face þan glorius gulles þat [etc.]. c1530Tindale Prol. to Jonas (1863) A vj b, Ande one yt cast out deuels in Christes name they [the apostles] forbade because he wayted not on them, so glorious were they yet. 1577J. Brooke Guido's Staffe Chr. Faith Pref., A soil and heape of glorious deceiuers, which hyde and boast themselues. 1612Bacon Ess., Vaine-glory (Arb.) 462 They that are glorious, must needs be factious; for all brauery stands vpon comparisons. 1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 25 If they [Princes] are..gay and glorious, they are reviled as incompassionate. 1692Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 13 Whether..Posterity, glorious throughout, were desirous that their Ancestors should be Masters of Vertues, when they were not of Greatness. a1734North Exam. i. ii. §32. 46 After he was possessed of the Great Seal, he was in Appearance the gloriousest Man alive.
†2. Eager for glory. Obs.
1608Shakes. Per. i. Prol. 9 The purchase is to make men glorious. 1621Fletcher Pilgrim iv. ii, I am not watchfull to do ill, Nor glorious to pursue it still. 1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 392 He always left such to Heroes as were purely Glorious.
3. a. Of persons and things: Possessing glory; entitled to brilliant and lofty renown, illustrious. spec. As an epithet of: (a) the ‘First of June’, the date of a sea battle between the British and French in 1794, ending in victory for the British; (b) the ‘Twelfth’ of August [twelfth 1 c]; (c) (U.S.) the ‘Fourth’ (of July).
Now somewhat rare; the mod. use as applied to persons (e.g. in ‘Glorious John’ as a designation of Dryden) belongs to sense 5. (The AF. Coronation Oath of 1307 speaks of ‘le glorious Rei Seynt Edward’.)
13..K. Alis. 7441 Now is ded kyng Porus, Alisaunder is kyng glorious. a1400Morte Arth. 1 Grett glorious Godd, thurgh grace of hym selvene..Schelde us ffro schamesdede and synfulle werkes. c1460Towneley Myst. iii. 166 My name is of dignyte, and also full glorius. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 174/1 Saynt austyn preched a glorious sermone & declared there to the kynge the crysten feythe openlye. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxv. 91 Quhilk grant the glorius Trinitie! 1604E. G. tr. D'Acosta's Hist. Indies i. i. 2 The glorious Crysostome (a man better seene in the studie of holy Scriptures, then in the knowledge of Philosophie). 1660Blount Boscobel 1 Charles the Second undoubted heir of Charles the First of Glorious Memory. 1720–21Swift Let. to Pope 10 Jan., Wks. 1824 XVI. 352, I will tell you what my political principles were in the time of her late glorious majesty. 1794(title) Songs, Duetts, Choruses, &c. In a New and Appropriate Entertainment. Called The Glorious First of June. 1827[see fourth a. 2 b]. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 88 He answered, O glorious King, it hath been said, by the ancients [etc.]. 1854W. G. Simms Southward Ho! xiii. 253 Our dinner on the glorious Fourth was worthy of the occasion. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus xxxiv. 23 Still keep safely the glorious Race of Romulus olden. 1879M. Arnold Poems of Wordsw. Pref. (near end), He is one of the very chief glories of English Poetry; and by nothing is England so glorious as by her poetry. 1895E. G. Mackenzie In Grouseland xvii. 125 The glorious twelfth! Despite critical politics, the continuous fine weather and the certainty of sport has again filled all the saloon carriages bound northward. 1899W. L. Clowes Royal Navy IV. xxxv. 230 (heading) The Glorious first of June. 1948Miami (Okla.) Daily News-Record 4 July 1/5 Where are Miami's glorious fourths of yesteryear? 1966Chambers's Encycl. V. 660/2 The Glorious First of June..the name given to a sea battle of the French revolutionary war. 1971D. Ayerst Guardian xxx. 468 With the ‘glorious twelfth’ only three days off politicians were deserting Westminster for the grouse moors.
b. Of an achievement, action, circumstance, state of things, etc.: Conferring glory; entitling to brilliant and lofty renown; conspicuously honourable. Const. to.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 49 For this day by famous death or glorious victory I wyl wynne honor. 1577J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 36 It is glorious when the preachers are certaine of their doctrine which they teache. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 56 It is one of the gloriousest works in the world, to have an hand in..the saving of a soul. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 16 Which followed close upon the glorious Battel (but with small fruit) of Lepanto. 1709Steele & Swift Tatler No. 66 ⁋8 The great and glorious Victory obtained over the Enemy on the 11th Instant. 1774Chesterfield Lett. (1792) I. ii. 5 As it is more difficult to express one's thoughts in verse than in prose, the being capable of doing it is more glorious. 1789in Sir J. Sinclair's Corr. (1831) II. 282 The surrender of Oczakow, an event so remarkable in the history of Russia, and so glorious to the hero. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 147 He..declared that..he should think it glorious to die in his sovereign's cause.
†c. In non-laudatory sense: Conducive to reputation. Obs.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. v. iv. (1848) 309 And though a needless Ostentation of ones Excellencies may be more glorious, a modest Concealment of them is usually more safe.
4. Splendid in beauty or richness of adornment. Now only with emotional connotation as in 5. † Formerly also in a weaker sense, of textures, colours, etc.: Brilliant, shining, lustrous.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 914 As þou art gloryous withouten galle. c1315Shoreham 128 The gloriouse beerde [sc. our levedy], Out of thyse world the gloriouse ferde Wyth greate melodye. 1390Gower Conf. III. 114 Mars the planet bataillous Next to the sonne glorious. a1396Chaucer To Rosemounde 3 For as the crystal glorious ye shyne, And lyke ruby ben your chekes rounde. c1420Anturs of Arth. 366 Here gide was glorious and gay, of a gresse grene. 1509Fisher Funeral Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 304 It [the body] shall ryse bryght and gloryous. 1535Coverdale 2 Macc. viii. 35 He put of his glorious rayment, fled by see, and came alone to Antioche. 1596Spenser F.Q. Ded. to Lady Carew, Those glorious ornaments of hevenly grace. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 89 The glorious Planet Sol. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 1 The Iris (as vibrissant and glorious as a Cat's eye) most admirable to behold. Ibid. 43 So clear and glorious a body as glass. 1665R. Hooke Microgr. 169 The colours..must necessarily be very glorious, vivid and cleer, like those of Silk and Feathers. a1687Petty Pol. Arith. (1690) Pref., Notwithstanding all this..the Buildings of London grow great and glorious. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. v. §12 The glorious light of the gospel. 1792Munchausen's Trav. xxiv. 108 The sun shone glorious on the water. 1803Wordsw. Intim. Immort. ii, The sunshine is a glorious birth. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ix. 62 All conspired to render the scene glorious. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxvii. (1878) 470 The heavens were glorious with stars.
5. a. Used vaguely as a rapturous expression of admiration or delight: Splendid, magnificent, intensely delightful. Now often with jocular hyperbole.
1623Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 216 As a good Chine of Bacon, makes glorious porrige. 1772Nugent Grosley's Lond. I. 44 Which casual appearance [of the sun] procures the Londoners a few of what they call glorious days. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master vii. 24 They call a servant, and require, Immediately, a glorious fire. 1822Scott Pirate II. i. 14 ‘You forget glorious John’, said Mordaunt. ‘Ay, glorious you may well call him’. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xli. (1856) 375 What a glorious feed for the scurvy-stricken ships. 1863M. Howitt F. Bremer's Greece I. viii. 263 What glorious afternoons and evenings have I spent at Phalerus! 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 11 ‘What glorious fun’ said Florence.
b. ironical phrase.
According to Gentl. Mag. (1830) Aug. 98/1, the phrase was first used at a dinner of the Judges and Counsel about 1756, when after the toast of ‘the glorious memory of King William’ had been drunk, a Mr. Wilbraham proposed ‘the glorious uncertainty of the law’, in sarcastic allusion to Ld. Chief Justice Mansfield's bold overruling of former decisions.
1759–93Macklin Love à la mode ii. i. (1793) 27 The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science..and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. 1803Sheridan in Parl. Hist. (1820) XXXVI. 1204 The glorious uncertainty of the law, was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentlemen considered it as its greatest excellency. 1811J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 630 When I applied the epithet ‘glorious’ to the uncertainty of politics, I meant it ironically, as we say the ‘glorious uncertainty of the law’. Mod. The glorious uncertainty of cricket.
6. jocularly. Ecstatically happy from drink.
1790Burns Tam o' Shanter 57 Kings may be blessed, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills of life victorious. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer lii, As fast as one man could be..flogged into sobriety, another would become glorious. 1861Thackeray B. Lyndon xviii. (1869) 254, I was taken up ‘glorious’, as the phrase is, by my servants, and put to bed.
7. Comb. (quasi-adv.), as glorious-doing, glorious-sounding, glorious-talking adjs.
1670Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 324 The most *glorious-doing Christian.
1768Boswell Corsica iii. (ed. 2) 214 Fame's *glorious-sounding trumpet breath.
1662Cokain Ovid iv. i. (1669) 78 My *glorious talking Captain, I shall not Be won with empty words.
Add:[3.] [a.] (d) the ‘Revolution’ of 1688 in England (see revolution n. 8 b).
1716T. Bradbury Sermon preach'd November 5, 4 The first amazing Kindness that's inscribed upon the Fifth of November..is the Discovery of the Powder-Plot... But you know he hath put a new Song into our mouths, by making it again a time of Love: as it usher'd in the Glorious Revolution. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. II. xiv. 429 What has been emphatically denominated in the language of our public acts the Glorious Revolution. 1920P. Guedalla Supers & Supermen 103 In the Great Rebellion the King left by the front door; in the Glorious Revolution he emerged from the tradesmen's entrance. 1986Library Mar. 40 In Europe the peculiar constitutional arrangements deriving from the Glorious Revolution became a matter of intense interest to political philosophers. |