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splendacious, a.|splɛnˈdeɪʃəs| Also -atious, -aceous. [Fancifully f. splend-id a.: see -acious.] Very splendid; gorgeous, magnificent.
1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 379 The room is papered with some splendacious pattern in blue and gold. 1848Thackeray Trav. Lond. Wks. 1886 XXIV. 349 The silver dish-covers are splendaceous. 1872[Earl Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley] S. Sea Bubbles ix. 241 Loney..made a splendacious bedstead to sling his mat to. Hence splenˈdaciously; splenˈdaciousness.
1853Thackeray Lett. 14 Feb., On my first arrival, I was annoyed at the uncommon splendatiousness. 1872‘Aliph Cheem’ (Yeldham) Lays of Ind (1876) 6 One of them..more splendaciously dressed..than the rest. |