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parsimonious, a.|pɑːsɪˈməʊnɪəs|
Also 7 perci-, 7– parci-.
[f. L. parsimōnia parsimony + -ous. Cf. It. parsimonioso (Florio 1598), F. parcimonieux (1788 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Characterized by parsimony; careful in the use or disposal of money or resources; sparing, saving; ‘close’. Said of persons, their expenditure, etc.
1598Dallington Meth. Trav. H, Such a parsimonious sparer was Lewes 11. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 238 Being so percimonious and sparing in his expences. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. i. §28 Afterward he proved most parcimonious. 1769Robertson Chas. V, xi. III. 315 He husbanded the provisions..with the most parsimonious economy. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §3. 364 Her expenditure was parsimonious and even miserly.
b. fig. Sparing or niggardly in the use or disposal of immaterial things.
a1716South Serm. (1744) IX. vii. 212 These are those inexorable spiritual Cato's, those parsimonious dispensers of mercy. 1745J. Mason Self Knowl. i. v. (1853) 46 Nature..deals out her Favours in the present State with a parcimonious Hand. 1865Seeley Ecce Homo i. (ed. 8) 4 They asked, is God so little parsimonious of his noblest gift.
c. Of things: Yielding sparingly, unproductive; meagre, scanty; showing parsimony, poor, mean.
1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 169 T'allay thy envy'd Gains, Unthought of, on the parcimonious Plains. 1782F. Burney Cecilia i. ix, Her dress, though parsimonious, was too neat for a beggar. 1830S. Warren Diary Physic. (ed. Tauchn.) I. 11 Our parsimonious fare hardly deserved the name of food.
Hence parsiˈmoniously adv., parsiˈmoniousness.
1671L. Addison W. Barbary v. 130, I find them..without Parsimoniousness, and placing no Character of good House⁓keeping in abundance of Viands. a1745Swift (J.), Our ancestors acted parsimoniously, because they only spent their own treasure for the good of their posterity; whereas we squandered away the treasures of our posterity. 1822–56De Quincey Confess. (1862) 161, I continued..to live most parsimoniously in lodgings. 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. II. v. 110 It should tend to..generosity rather than to parsimoniousness. |