splendidious

splendidious

English

Etymology

Coined by Michael Drayton in 1627

Adjective

splendidious (comparative more splendidious, superlative most splendidious)

1. (obsolete) splendid
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, "Moses his birth and miracles" in The Muses Elizium lately discouered (page 173):

     Celesliall brightnesse ceazed on his face,

     That did the wondring Israelites amaze,

     When he returned from that souereigne place,

     His browes encireled with splendidious rayes.