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▪ I. pomp, n.|pɒmp|
Also 4–7 pompe, 5 pumpe.
[a. F. pompe (13th c. in Du Cange):—L. pompa, ad. Gr. ποµπή a sending, a solemn procession, a train, parade, display, pomp, f. πέµπειν to send.]
1. Splendid display or celebration, magnificent show; splendour, magnificence.
c1315Shoreham iv. 260 Who hys hit þat neuer yþouȝt Of pompe þat he seȝ? 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7077 Þus salle alle þair pomp oway pas, And be als thyng þat never was. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 317 b/2 For the pompe of my clothynge men calle me Margaryte. 1535Coverdale Wisd. v. 8 What profit hath the pompe of riches brought vs? a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 54 Thys mariage of prince Arthur was kept at London with great pompe and solempnitie. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 354 Farewell..The Royall Banner, and all Qualitie, Pride, Pompe, and Circumstance of glorious Warre. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, Nahum ii, Thine enemy..shall come fiercely upon thee, with great pompe of terror. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 559 High o'er the Main in wat'ry Pomp he rides. 1750Gray Elegy ix, The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. lxiii. 453 He generally avoids publicity, preferring the substance to the pomp of power.
b. with a and pl.
1651Jer. Taylor Holy Dying v. §8 (1727) 250 In the grave of her husband, in the Pomps of mourning. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Shaks. Wks. (Bohn) I. 352 The church has reared him amidst rites and pomps.
c. fig. Said of the splendours of nature.
c1750Shenstone Elegies i. 39 Where the turf diffus'd its pomp of flow'rs. 1825Longfellow Sea-Diver vii, I saw the pomp of day depart. 1868Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 48 The whole landscape is now covered with this indescribable pomp.
†2. A triumphal or ceremonial procession or train; a pageant; a splendid show or display along a line of march. Obs.
1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 43 By the vyctoryse pompys of her enmyes. 1530Palsgr. 256/2 Pompe tryumphe, triumphe. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 58 In olden dayes, good kings..Contented were, with pompes of little pryce. 1583Fulke Defence xxi. (Parker Soc.) 564 As for the Greek word ποµπεύειν, it signifieth to go in a solemn pomp, such as your processions are. c1618Moryson Itin. iv. iv. i. (1903) 334 In the Pompe the wemen goe first and of them the best and the neerest frendes next to the herse. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 564 The Planets in thir stations list'ning stood, While the bright Pomp ascended jubilant. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 317 Here, while the proud their long-drawn pomps display. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca i. i. 7 Those pomps or processions of young men and damsels..who.. displayed themselves at the festivals.
†b. fig. (Cf. train.)
1667Milton P.L. viii. 61 With Goddess-like demeanour forth she went; Not unattended, for on her as Queen A pomp of winning Graces waited still.
†c. fig. Said of any great natural movement.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars ii. vii, How Thames, inricht with many a Flood..Glides on, with pompe of Waters. 1712Addison Spect. No. 420 ⁋3 Worlds..sliding round their Axles in such an amazing Pomp and Solemnity.
†3. Ostentatious display; parade; specious or boastful show; vain glory; esp. in phr. pomp and pride. Obs.
c1325Spec. Gy Warw. 158 Gret los of pompe and pride. a1340Hampole Psalter xxxi. 12 Þaire pompe in speche, fordo it, that neghis noght til the in meknes. c1400Destr. Troy 3785 Pompe and proude wordis ay þe prinse hated. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxxv. [ccxxi.] 704 Bycause they suffred the prelates of the churche to medell so moche; therfore some sayde, it was tyme to abate their pompes, and to bringe them to reason. 1563B. Googe Eglogs, etc. (Arb.) 98 For all the pompe and Pryde, the Bodie tournes to dust. 1653Milton Hirelings (1659) 49 After a long pomp and tedious preparation out of heathen authors. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 376 Deceiving the World with a Pretence and Pomp of Godliness. 1772Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 390 A mere piece of pomp and parade.
b. pl.
In the baptismal formula, repr. L. pompa or pompæ diaboli (2nd c., Tertull.), orig. the processions, public shows, spectacles of the circus, etc., associated with or sanctioned by the pagan worship (see sense 2 above); then, more vaguely, any ‘shows’ held to be under the patronage of the devil; finally (from 17th c.) tacitly transferred to those of ‘the world’, and associated with its ‘vanities’.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4665 Y forsake þe, here, Satan, And alle þy pompes, and all thy werkys. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 169 b, Whether thou renounce & forsake y⊇ deuyll & all his pompes. 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Comm. Prayer, Catechism, That I should forsake the deuil and all his workes and pompes, the vanities of the wicked worlde. [1603 the deuill and all his workes, the pomps and vanities of the wicked world.] 1746Earl of Kilmarnock in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 89 The pomps and gaudy shows of the world. 1835Mrs. Sherwood Stories Ch. Catech. (1873) 401 Q. What are pomps and vanities? A. All kinds of fine things which we use, or wear, to gratify our pride or vanity. 1845G. A. Poole Churches vii. 73 His armorial bearings (the very essential hieroglyphic of the pomps of this world which we renounce at Baptism). 1858Miss Sewell Amy Herbert x. 128 The pomps and vanities of the world are different to different people. If Susan Reynolds..were anxious to..wear a silk dress like yours, she would be longing for pomps and vanities, because she would be coveting something beyond her station.
†4. concr. Something to make a brave show.
1632Brome North. Lasse i. ii, Here's five peeces to buy pomps against my Sisters Wedding.
5. Phrases. † magistrate of the pomps: a sumptuary officer in Venice. † to save one's pomp: see quot. 1801.
1705Addison Italy 78 The Magistrate of the Pomps is oblig'd by his Office to see that no Body wears the Cloth of another Country. 1801Sporting Mag. XVIII. 101 To save one's pomp at whist, is to score five before the adversaries are up, or win the game.
6. Comb., as pomp-fed, pomp-like, pomp-loving adjs.
1711Hickes Chr. Priesth. (1847) II. 107 The highest pomp-like celebrity of words. 1813Shelley Q. Mab iv. 245 A pomp-fed king. 1903Brandes Poland i. iii. 24 An enthusiastic and unpractical people..pomp-loving and volatile.
▪ II. pomp, v.1 Now chiefly poet.
[f. prec. n. Cf. late L. pompāre to do (a thing) with pomp (Sedul.); obs. F. pomper to celebrate with pomp, act splendidly, etc.]
intr. To exhibit pomp or splendour; to conduct oneself pompously. Also pomp it. So pomped |pɒmpt| a., honoured with pomp, celebrated; ˈpomping a., † (a) in pomping pride, prob. a corruption of pomp and pride: see prec. 3; (b) dial., involved in acting.
c1500Sir Beues (Pynson) 172 He pryked forth before the oste For pompynge pryde to make great boste. 1555Bradford Supplic. B ij b, For example, take their pompynge pryde. c1632B. Jonson Expost. w. Inigo Jones 29 What is the cause you pomp it so, I ask? 1919W. de la Mare Flora, Mount to the porch the pomped grandees In lonely state, by twos, and threes. 1922Hardy Late Lyrics 48 And once or twice she has cast me As she pomped along the street Court-clad,..A glance from her chariot-seat. 1937G. Frankau More of Us xiv. 153 And all that day, despising fun and frolic With Janes or Joans, he pomped about the ship. 1969G. Macbeth War Quartet 26 So few yards Beyond this dust-whirl, those pomped victors. 1976Birmingham Post 16 Dec. 2/4 Rover, one of the pomping folk, thinks principally in Shakespearean tags. 1976J. C. Trewin in D. V. Baker Cornish Short Stories 134 It [sc. the rain] hammered against the side of the tent where the pomping folk had prepared hopelessly for the evening.
▪ III. pomp, v.2 Now dial.
[A variant of pamp, radical of pamper vb. See pamp v. (the existence of which it confirms).]
trans. To feed (any one) luxuriously, feed up, pamper.
[a1400: see pamp v.] 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. v. (1554), The pomped carkes wyth fode delicious They did not fede. a1518Skelton Magnyf. 2012 Where that ye were pomped with what that ye wolde, Nowe must ye suffre bothe hunger and colde. 1884Lawson Worc. Gloss., Pomp, v., to pamper or feed up; spoiled children are said to be pomped up; also horses and other animals for sale. 1896Outis Vig. Mon. in Berrow's Worc. Jrnl. (E.D.D.), [The ladies] wuz hall pomped hoff and togged up.
▪ IV. pomp, pompe
obs. forms of pump.
▪ V. pomp
erron. form of pop v.2 |