fetuous

English edit

Etymology edit

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Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛtjuəs/, /ˈfɛt͡ʃuəs/

Adjective edit

fetuous (comparative more fetuous, superlative most fetuous)

(obsolete) neat
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Temple”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:
  Upon this fetuous board doth stand / Something for shew-bread, and at hand / (Just in the middle of the altar) / Upon an end, the Fairy-psalter.
  The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fetuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)