Citations:locuplete

English citations of locuplete

Adjective: "possessing wealth; rich"

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• 1663 — William Clark, Marciano; Or, The Discovery: A Tragi-comedy, Act II, Scene 5, page 10

  […] he is most locuplete in both argentary and frumentary rents […]

• 1910 — anonymous, "The Point of View", "Frugal Hosptality", Scribner's Magazine (April), page 123

  And who can possibly have forgotten, in Thackeray's “Book of Snobs,” the dinner which the frugal but humorous Gray gave to the locuplete Goldmore […]

• 1933 — Chas E. Fisher, "The Locomotives of The Boston & Maine Railroad", The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (April), page 14

  The luxury of its appointments cajoled New Yorkers who were sufficiently locuplete to meet its tariff […]

Adjective: "having an abundance of something; plentiful"

				1794
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• 1794 — Mark Anthony Meilan (translator), The Adventures of Telemachus: An Epic Poem from the French of Fenelon with Alterations, Volume 2, page 367 (originally published in French as "Les aventures de Télémaque" by François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, 1699)

  […] A city fill'd
  With workmen in each art luxuriant ſkill'd,
  And locuplete in gold, […]