eximiousadj.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxxxvi Kynges & kynges sonnes and other noble men hath bene eximiouse phisicions.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie vii. 38 Maysters of the eximious & Archane Science of Phisick.

1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 236 Things..eximious and eminent in loue aboue many other Graces.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Qqq3^v This syrupe is eximious against many affections.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 709 Our Saviour Christ, was unquestionably, that One Eximious Prophet, which God..promised to send.

1681 H. More in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus ii. 189 There is in this Relation an eximious example of the Magical venome of Witches.

1710 R. Ward Life H. More 22 This Eximious Person.

1766 C. Berrow Lapse of Human Souls 77 To lose sight at last of that great Luminary to which they stood indebted for their eximious lustre.

1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin vii. 103 All..the most eximious and transcendent persons..of the earth.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. ii. 430 Oh, ye wigs, and eximious wig-blocks, called right-honourable!

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 180 The picture be for our eximious Rome.

1928 C. Bell Civilization v. 117 The disseminators of culture are a group of men and women of whom most create no tangible work and leave no eximious monument.

1960 O. Manning Great Fortune x. 131 A little department at the door sold imports from England: Quaker Oats, tinned fruits, corned beef, Oxford marmalade—expensive luxuries eximious among luxury.

2010 S. Fry Fry Chrons. 231 The 13th Duke of Argyll..and the 9th Earl of Elgin, Viceroy of India, are numbered amongst its eximious alumni.

1650 W. Sclater, Jr. in W. Sclater Expos. 4th Chapter Rom. Ep. Ded. sig. A3 It being so eximiously beautified.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Rrr It is most eximiously Medicinal.

1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel ii. 42 Is not this part of the Prophecy also eximiously fulfilled?

1771 F. Fleming Life & Adventures Timothy Ginnadrake II. viii. 141 His wife was..eximiously inclined, indefatigable in her business, and..a woman of the greatest merit in her art.

1810 tr. Cicero in Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 14/2 A fault with which the eximiously erudite Greeks..are abundantly endowed.

1967 F. R. Buckley Eye of Hurricane i. iii. 73 Mr. Halliday beamed. As a melon is full of sugar and water, so was his bright pink face. ‘Fees and taxes accounted for,’ he said eximiously.

1985 J. Fowles Maggot 422 Did He not most eximiously hold truth above all else?

1648 J. Owen Salus Electorum iv. ii. 203 The intention of our Saviour, is so to set it forth, as is apparent by the emphaticall expressions of it used in this place: The particles so, that, declare no lesse, pointing out an eximiousnesse, peculiarly remarkable in the thing whereof the affirmation is, above any other thing in the same kinde.

1663 Case Mary Carleton 86 I rode to Hide-Park, in open view of that celebrious Cavalcade and Assembly, much gazed upon by them all, the eximiousness of my fortune drawing their eyes upon me.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Eximiousness, Eximiety,..Excellency, Notableness, &c. Excellentness. [And in some later Dicts.]

1909 F. G. Stokes tr. U. von Hutten et al. Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum 394 Most eximious Herr Prothonotary, since..it is profitable to make enquiry concerning each and all; therefore hath your Eximiousness proposed to me a question.

2013 R. A. Milwood Western European & Brit. Barbarity, Savagery, & Brutality in Transatlantic Chattel Slave Trade Introd. 19 Dr Akosua Adoma Perbi..has articulated with eximiousness and veridicality..that ‘slavery was a worldwide institution’.