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▪ I. ostent, n.1 Now rare.|ɒˈstɛnt|
[ad. L. ostent-um (pl. -a) something shown, a prodigy, n. use of neuter pa. pple. of ostend-ĕre: see ostend. Rarely in L. form.]
A sign, portent, wonder, prodigy.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) II. 94 Which miraculous ostent, passing the ordinary course of natural causes..was sent of God. 1598Chapman Marlowe's Hero & Leander iv. Argt., Ostents that threaten her estate. c1611― Iliad ii. 280 Wise Jove is he hath shown This strange ostent to us. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 185 When he was a Boy in the Low-Countries, some Ostenta of like condition were shewn him about the beginning of the Belgick Wars. 1741T. Francklin tr. Cicero's Nat. Gods ii. 83 From whence they are called Ostents, Signs, Portents, Prodigies. 1812W. Tennant Anster F. iv. lxi, A globe of fire (miraculous ostent). 1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 9 The Night waxed wan, As though with an awed sense of such ostent.
▪ II. ostent, n.2 Now rare.|ɒˈstɛnt|
[ad. L. ostentu-s a showing, displaying, show, display, parade, f. ppl. stem of ostend-ĕre: see ostend.]
1. The act of showing; manifestation, indication; show, display, appearance.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ii. 205 Vse all the obseruance of ciuillitie Like one well studied in a sad ostent To please his Grandam. Ibid. viii. 44 Imploy your chiefest thoughts To courtship, and such faire ostents of loue As shall conueniently become you there. 1646G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 I. 59 Dost aright discerne Twixt vertue and ostent. 1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ Diat. v. 245 Those Reasons..whereof they make ostent with so many plausible amplifications. 1784Cowper Task vi. 487 Atheist in ostent, Vicious in act, in temper savage-fierce. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. v. 547 In name and ostent, the sovereignty of the Nabob..was not to be infringed. 1861Patmore in Macm. Mag. V. 26 Nature's infinite ostent Of lovely flowers in wood and mead.
2. Vainglorious display, ostentation.
1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 183 All such whom glory swels with proud ostent. 1609Heywood Brit. Troy viii. v, Thou proud Achilles with thy great ostent. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. v. 1 Trust not in Riches, with a vaine Ostent Of Fullnes. 1895W. Watson Father of Forest 13 Goodly the ostents are to thee And pomps of time.
b. with pl. An embodiment of ostentation.
1638Brideoake in Jonsonus Virbius, [Such] may have The vain ostents of pride upon their grave. 1652Benlowes Theoph. xii. xcii, Ambitious obelisks, ostents of Pride.
▪ III. † ostent, v. Obs.
[ad. F. ostente-r (16th c. in Godef.), ad. L. ostentā-re to show off, freq. of ostendĕre: see ostend.]
= ostentate v.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. xiv, Semblably ther be some, that by dissimulation can ostent or shewe a high grauitie. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 30 The pride of the mouthe..consisteth..in ostenting and braggyng of some singular vertue..in himselfe or some other of his kinred. 1615T. Adams Eng. Sickness Wks. 1861 I. 415 Malice not only discovers, but ostenteth her devilish effects. 1633― Exp. 2 Peter i. 7 There is nothing more easy than to ostent the love of God. |