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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1699
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Glorious, Glorius, a. Also: gloriouse, -ieous, -ios; gloryus, -yws. [ME. glorious (13 … ), OF. glorieus, -ios, L. glōriōsus.]
1. Invested with glory; of great fame or splendour. Of persons or things.(1) c1420 Wynt. v. 3036.
That gloryws and that pure virgyne c1420 Ib. 3515.
The gloryus doctor Sayncte Jerome 1456 Hay II. 70/11.
His dere and gloriouse moder and virgyne 1456 Ib. 145/3.
The hye and glorious almychti God a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 41.
Written be worthie Chaucer glorious a1500 Id. Orph. 79.
Quhen that scho saw this prince so glorius, Hir erand to propone scho thocht no schame a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1026.
O glorios virgine, sege of our saluiour c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxv. 91.
Quhilk grant the glorius Trinitie 1551 Hamilton Catechism 82.
Our lady the glorious virgine Mary(2) 1456 Hay II. 5/27.
The glorious passioun of Crist 1456 Ib. 92/33.
It is mare glorious in a king that [etc.] a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1377.
O gloryus kingdome, … O plentuos plesans 1490 Irland Mir. I. 10/36.
At the glorius byrth of Jhesu c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 517.
Thai maid ane glorius gle amang thai grene bewis 1513 Doug. ii. ix. 80.
Fortone heir endit his gloryus estait 1513 Ib. viii. xii. 144.
The famus honour … Of gloryus jestis of hys postheryte c1552 Lynd. Mon. 676.
Latt poetis schaw thare glorious ingyne(3) 1456 Hay II. 128/23.
That tyme of faire, suete, glorious and fresche anournementis 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. iii. 635.
On quhais glorious visage … I blent In extasie c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxii. 27.
For scorne thai … hid his blythful glorious eyne 1513 Doug. i. xi. 7.
The quene was set at des Vndir hir gloryus stentit capitale 1513 Ib. xi. xi. 135.
In sepultur full gloryus 16.. Hist. Kennedy 68.
In the New Kirk … scho had gartt sett wp ane glorieons towme
2. Assuming dignity; vainglorious.c1460 Wisdom of Solomon 547.
The rich and the pure, the glorious and meke c1460 Ib. 548.
The glorious prowd man c1552 Lynd. Mon. 716.
God maid hym thus, That man sulde nocht be glorious c1552 Ib. 1664.
He grew so gret and glorious, So prydefull and presumptuous a1578 Pitsc. II. 81/19.
God forgif ȝone man that lyis so glorieous on the wall a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xxxvi. 219.
Ȝe wemen vitious, … Grow not our glorious c1590 Fowler I. 326/11.
I hate the glorious Spanȝart proud
