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beauteous, a.|ˈbjuːtɪəs|
Forms: 5 bewtyose, 5–6 beauteuous, 6 beuteus, bewtyous, 7 beuteous, bewtious, 6–8 beautious, 6– beauteous.
[f. beaute, beauty n. + -ous. Cf. plenteous.]
Distinguished by beauty, exceedingly fair in appearance or elegant in form, pleasing to the sight, beautiful. (Literary and chiefly poetical.)
c1440York Myst. xlvi. 175 As bewteous braunche for to bere. 1480Caxton Descr. Brit. 6 England is beauteuous..flour of londes all aboute. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 86 A wife With wealth enough, and yong and beautious. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 697 Each beauteous flour. 1711Steele Spect. No. 144 ⁋1 There is something irresistible in a beauteous Form. c1805Wordsw. Sonn. i. xxx. Wks. III. 32 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free. 1855Browning In a Balcony in Men & Women II. 105 The dearest, richest, beauteousest and best Of women. |