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† pompatic, a. Obs.|pɒmˈpætɪk| [ad. late L. pompāticus showy, splendid (Tertull.), f. pompātus, prop. pa. pple. of pompāre to do (a thing) with pomp, f. pompa pomp n.] Pompous, splendid, ostentatious. So † pomˈpatical a. Obs.
1535John ap Rice in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. II. 356 In his going he is too insolent and pompatique. 1610Bp. Carleton Jurisd. 78 He deuiseth by the pride of this Pompaticall title to subdue to himselfe. a1677Barrow Pope's Suprem. (1687) 122 These pompatick, foolish, proud, perverse, wicked, profane words. [1903G. F. Browne St. Aldhelm 255 The genius of Aldhelm was on the whole too pompatic to be pleased with the lilt of pentameters.] |