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bombast
(encz) | bombast,bombastičnost Jaroslav Šedivý |
Bombast
(gcide) | Bombast \Bom"bast\ (b[o^]m"b[.a]st or b[u^]m"b[.a]st; 277), n.
[OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet
of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See
Bombazine.]
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
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A candle with a wick of bombast. --Lupton.
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2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing
for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
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How now, my sweet creature of bombast! --Shak.
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Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of
bombast at least. --Stubbes.
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3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language
above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. --Dryden.
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Bombast
(gcide) | Bombast \Bom"bast\, a.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;
bombastic.
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[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak.
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Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley.
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Bombast
(gcide) | Bombast \Bom*bast"\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]st" or b[u^]m*b[.a]st"), v. t.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
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Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
--Drayton.
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bombast
(wn) | bombast
n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast,
fustian, rant, claptrap, blah] |
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bombastic
(encz) | bombastic,bombastický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
bombastický
(czen) | bombastický,bombasticadj: Zdeněk Brožbombastický,highfalutinadj: Zdeněk Brožbombastický,highfalutingadj: Zdeněk Brožbombastický,sententiousadj: Zdeněk Brož |
bombastičnost
(czen) | bombastičnost,bombast Jaroslav Šedivýbombastičnost,grandiloquencen: Zdeněk Brožbombastičnost,turgidityn: Zdeněk Brož |
Bombast
(gcide) | Bombast \Bom"bast\ (b[o^]m"b[.a]st or b[u^]m"b[.a]st; 277), n.
[OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet
of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See
Bombazine.]
1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.]
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A candle with a wick of bombast. --Lupton.
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2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing
for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.]
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How now, my sweet creature of bombast! --Shak.
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Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of
bombast at least. --Stubbes.
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3. Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language
above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
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Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]Bombast \Bom"bast\, a.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent;
bombastic.
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[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance,
Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. --Shak.
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Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. --Cowley.
[1913 Webster]Bombast \Bom*bast"\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]st" or b[u^]m*b[.a]st"), v. t.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.]
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Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.
--Drayton.
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Bombastic
(gcide) | Bombastic \Bom*bas"tic\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k or
b[u^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas"tic*al\, a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. --
Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.
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A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
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Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
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Bombastical
(gcide) | Bombastic \Bom*bas"tic\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k or
b[u^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas"tic*al\, a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. --
Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.
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A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
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Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
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Bombastically
(gcide) | Bombastic \Bom*bas"tic\ (b[o^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k or
b[u^]m*b[.a]s"t[i^]k), Bombastical \Bom*bas"tic*al\, a.
Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated. --
Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv.
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A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. --Burke.
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Syn: Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
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Bombastry
(gcide) | Bombastry \Bom"bast*ry\, n.
Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language;
fustian.
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Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light,
soar highest of all. --Swift.
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bombastic
(wn) | bombastic
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid] |
bombastically
(wn) | bombastically
adv 1: in a turgid manner; "he lectured bombastically about his
theories" [syn: turgidly, bombastically]
2: in a grandiose manner; "the building was bombastically
spacious" [syn: bombastically, grandiosely] |
theophrastus philippus aureolus bombastus von hohenheim
(wn) | Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim
n 1: Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular
illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw
illness as having an external cause (rather than an
imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with
chemical remedies (1493-1541) [syn: Paracelsus,
Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, {Theophrastus Philippus
Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim}] |
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