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imposturous, a.|ɪmˈpɒstjʊərəs|
[f. imposture + -ous; cf. imposterous, -torous, -trous.]
1. Of the nature of imposture; deceptive, fraudulent. Now rare.
1608T. Morton Preamb. Encounter 35 So suspicious and imposturous a Title. 1687S. Hill Cath. Balance Pref., Methods of prescribing Tradition against imposturous Doctrines. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxii. VIII. 50 They [the five thousand] did not even exist as individual names on paper, but simply as an imposturous nominal aggregate.
†2. Given to practising imposture; having the character of an impostor. Obs.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1632) 1175/2 The shamefull vntruth of those imposturous liers. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xix. (1713) 220 An imposturous and bloody Priesthood! 1697Collier Immor. Stage iii. 78 The English Œdipus makes the Priest-hood an imposturous Profession. |