splendidious
English edit
Etymology edit
Coined by Michael Drayton in 1627
Adjective edit
splendidious (comparative more splendidious, superlative most splendidious)
- (obsolete) splendid
- 1627, Michael Drayton, “Moses his birth and miracles”, in The Muses Elizium lately discouered[1], 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.