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† oˈstentive, a. Obs.
[f. L. ostent-, ppl. stem: see ostend and -ive.]
= ostentatious.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 22 The red herring..empals our sage senatours..in princely scarlet as pompous ostentyue as the Vintiquater or Lady Troynouant. 1614Stirling Doomsday iii, That pompous bird which still in triumph bears Rolled in a circle his ostentive taile. 1670J. Law in Lauderdale Papers (Camden) III. App. 234 The Bishop..desired Mr Gilbert Burnett to reply, which he did in an ostentive manner. 1730Ld. Mar's Legacy to Son (1897) 186 The..affected and ostentive way of the Church of Rome. |