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modish, a.|ˈməʊdɪʃ|
[f. mode n. + -ish.]
1. According to the mode or prevailing fashion. (Very common in 17–18 c.; now somewhat arch.)
a. Of persons: Observant of or following the mode (usually with suggestion of disparagement).
1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 155 Such Manners as were scorned by the Modish World. 1664Pepys Diary 26 Aug., Mr. Pen, Sir William's son, is come back from France, and come to visit my wife. A most modish person grown, she says, a fine gentleman. 1712Addison Spect. No. 399 ⁋1 The modish Hypocrite endeavours to appear more vicious than he really is, the other kind of Hypocrite more virtuous. 1725Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 188 All our modish writers. 1803M. Edgeworth Belinda (1832) II. xxviii. 269 A very pretty, modish, affected young lady. 1885A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 14 The most brilliant and modish society in England was at that time to be met at Bath.
absol.1675E. Phillips Theat. Poet. Pref. **3 For Cloths I leave them to the discretion of the Modish. 1902Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 3/1 One still sees the modish clutching their skirts when they walk abroad.
b. Of things: Conforming to the mode; in accordance with the prevailing fashion; also, followed or sought after by people of fashion, fashionable.
1663Pepys Diary 21 Oct., A good velvet cloak..and other things modish. 1672Wycherley Love in Wood iv. ii, Besides, they say he has the modish distemper. a1706Evelyn Sylva (1776) 319 The Swedish Juniper, now so frequent in our modish gardens. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 112, I believe the greatest Evil is on the Side of this destructive modish extraordinary Incorporation of the Yeast with the Beer. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman (1841) II. xliv. 156 Houses built thirty or forty years ago, are now old-fashioned, and must be pulled down, to build more modish apartments. 1810S. Green Reformist I. 220 Her modish effrontery was evidently constrained by habitual puritanism. 1852Mrs. Smythies Bride Elect xxi, Her mother's elegant and modish little abode. 1894Daily News 9 Feb. 3/1 Till then [i.e. Easter], no one is supposed to wish for modish raiment.
¶2. nonce-use. Pertaining to ‘mode’ in the metaphysical sense.
1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 102 Whence the Notions signify'd by such Words are..Modish (as we may term it) or expressing some Manner [How] the Thing is. |