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opprobrious, a.|əˈprəʊbrɪəs|
Forms: 4– opprobrious, (5 obprobryes, 6 obprobrious(e, -yous(e, -yus, 6–7 approbrious, 7 opproprious).
[ad. OF. ob-, opprobrieux, or late L. opprobriōs-us, f. L. opprobrium: see opprobrium.]
1. Of words, language, etc.: Conveying opprobrium or injurious reproach; attaching, or intended to attach, disgrace; contumelious, vituperative, abusive. Rarely of persons: Using contumelious or abusive language.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 167 Prayeng a opprobrious a reprevynge name unto þaym but if they drank. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. (1892) 1079 After many obprobryes wordes..they ladde hym forthe vnto a tree. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 198 b, A man contumelious, opprobrious, and an iniurious person. Ibid., Hen. VIII, 144 These with many approbrious wordes, were spoken against the Cardinall. 1602Rowlands Greene's Ghost 3 The name of Conicatchers is..vsed for an opprobrious name for euerie one that sheweth the least occasion of deceit. 1715–20Pope Iliad vii. 108 Stern Menelaus first the silence broke, And, inly groaning, thus opprobrious spoke. 1831Macaulay Ess., Hampden (1887) 228 The multitude pressed round the King's coach, and insulted him with opprobrious cries. 1839I. Taylor Anc. Chr. I. iv. 548 The opprobrious epithet, hypocrite..is the world's rough judgment.
†b. Of actions, feelings, etc.: Offering or disposed to offer indignity; insulting, insolent. Obs.
1630Quarles Div. Poems, Sion's Sonn. xi. iv, The Bridall bed, which Time, or Age Durst never warrant from th' opprobrious rage Of envious fate. 1701Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. iv. iii, Whom that fell Dog..With most opprobrious Injuries has loaded.
2. Attended by or involving shame or infamy; held in dishonour; associated with disgrace; infamous, shameful, disgraceful. Now rare.
c1510More Picus Wks. 15/2 The opprobriouse death of the crosse. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxxi. §15 Neither did any thing seeme opprobrious out of which there might arise commoditie and profit. 1667Milton P.L. i. 403 The wisest heart Of Solomon he led..to build His Temple right against the Temple of God, On that opprobrious Hill. 1784Cowper Task v. 379 Opprobrious more To France than all her losses and defeats,..Her house of bondage,..the Bastille. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 81 The reproachful words of the enemies of God are but the echo of the opprobrious deeds of His unfaithful servants.
b. Subject to opprobrium. rare.
1804E. de Acton Tale without Title II. 133 To see their emoluments arise from some other source than tithes, the collection of which frequently renders them very opprobrious to their parishioners. |