gorgious

English

Adjective

gorgious (comparative more gorgious, superlative most gorgious)

1. Obsolete form of gorgeous.
   • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent. […], revised edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii:

     [T]o ſelect among ten thouſand faires, / A Lady farre inferior to the moſt, / In faire proportion both of limbe and ſoule: / To take her from auſterer check of parents, / To make her his by moſt deuoutfull rightes, / Make her commandreſſe of a better eſſence / Then is the gorgious world even of a man.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 36–37:

     Baſes and tinſel Trappings, gorgious Knights / At Jouſt and Touneament; then marſhal'd Feaſt / Serv'd up in Hall with Sewers, and Seneſhals; […]

   • 1681, [Georges] de Scudery, translated by a Person of Honour, Amaryllis to Tityrus. Being, the First Heroick Harangue of the Excellent Pen of Monsieur Scudery. A Witty and Pleasant Novel. Englished by a Person of Honour, London: […] Will. Cademan, […], page 31:

     And almoſt all have their Crooks enriched with Devices, Cyphers and Ribands, and the propriety of their Habits, ſerves to render them more aimable: It is not gorgious, but it is graceful, and although neither Purple, nor Precious-Stones glitter in them; […]