celebrious

English

Etymology

From Latin celebr-, celeber + English -ious.

Adjective

celebrious (comparative more celebrious, superlative most celebrious)

1. (obsolete) Famous.
   • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Iohn Duke of Normandie, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c. […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 5, page 484, column 2:

     For vvhat elſe did Hubert Archbiſhoppe of Canterbury, […] vvhen in that ſacred and celebrious Aſſembly of all the States, addreſſing for the roiall Inauguration, hee […] perſvvading them by a cunning, but diſloyall ſpeech (vvhich yet ſome by tranſforming, haue more deformed) that the Engliſh Crovvne vvas meerely Arbitrary and Electiue at the peoples deuotion?

Related terms

• celebrate, celebrated
• celebrity

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “celebrious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)