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  • 1 pomposamente

    adv.
    pompously, magnificently, loftily, flourishingly.
    * * *
    ADV (=con esplendor) splendidly, magnificently; (=con majestuosidad) majestically; (=con ostentación) pompously
    * * *
    = stuffily, grandly.
    Ex. Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.
    Ex. Limbaugh grandly announced on his radio program that he might not support the Republican nominee, as none pass his conservative litmus test.
    * * *
    = stuffily, grandly.

    Ex: Book clubs do not have to be cliquish, pretentious, stuffily self-inflated, or bolt-holes for ethereal literary spirits.

    Ex: Limbaugh grandly announced on his radio program that he might not support the Republican nominee, as none pass his conservative litmus test.

    * * *
    1 ‹celebrar› with pomp or splendor*
    2 ‹hablar› pompously
    lo que pomposamente se llamó la fiesta del siglo what was grandly called the party of the century
    * * *
    1. [con suntuosidad] splendidly, with great pomp
    2. [con ostentación] showily
    3. [hablar] pompously

    Spanish-English dictionary > pomposamente

  • 2 speciosus

    spĕcĭōsus, a, um, adj. [species] (acc. to species, II. B. 3.), good-looking, showy, handsome, beautiful, splendid, brilliant (not freq. till after the Aug. period; syn.: venustus, pulcher, formosus, spectabilis).
    A.
    Lit. (not so in Cic.):

    hunc speciosum pelle decorā,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 45:

    femina,

    Quint. 5, 10, 47:

    puer,

    Petr. 41, 6:

    corpora,

    Quint. 11, 3, 26:

    nec id speciosum fieri putabo,

    id. 5, 12, 19:

    in certaminibus speciosa atque robusta,

    id. 11, 3, 26:

    ministerium,

    Vell. 2, 111, 3:

    familia,

    id. 2, 59, 2.— Comp.:

    familiam nemo speciosiorem producit,

    Sen. Ep. 87, 6:

    si plenior aliquis et speciosior et coloratior factus est,

    Cels. 2, 2.— Sup.:

    homo (Alcibiades),

    Quint. 8, 4, 23:

    corpus,

    id. 2, 15, 9:

    filia,

    Petr. 140, 2.—
    B.
    Trop.:

    reversionis has speciosas causas habes,

    well-sounding, plausible, specious, Cic. Att. 16, 7, 6; cf.:

    specioso titulo uti vos, Romani, Graecarum civitatium liberandarum video,

    Liv. 35, 16:

    dictu speciosa,

    id. 1, 23:

    gerentis bellum Romanos speciosum Graeciae liberandae tulisse titulum,

    id. 42, 52, 15; 36, 17, 13; cf. Quint. 8, 6, 8:

    magis necessarium quam speciosum, ministerium,

    Liv. 4, 8, 6:

    dicere aliquod speciosum,

    Quint. 1, 5, 3:

    speciosum dicendi genus,

    id. 10, 1, 127:

    vocabula rerum,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 116:

    miracula,

    id. A. P. 144:

    speciosa locis morataque recte Fabula,

    id. ib. 319:

    speciosa nomina culpae Imponis,

    Ov. M. 7, 69:

    specioso eripe damno,

    from this splendid misery, id. ib. 11, 133.— Comp.:

    cum speciosius quid dicendum est,

    Quint. 11, 3, 84:

    speciosior rhetorice quam dialectice,

    id. 2, 20, 7:

    speciosiore stili genere,

    id. 7, 1, 54:

    gestarum rerum ordinem sequi speciosius fuit,

    id. 3, 7, 15.— Sup.:

    longe speciosissimum genus orationis,

    Quint. 8, 6, 49. — Adv.: spĕcĭōsē, showily, handsomely, splendidly.
    1.
    Lit.: vehi, i. e. in a painted or ornamented vessel, Plin. 35, 7, 31, § 49. — Comp.:

    speciosius instratus equus quam uxor vestita,

    Liv. 34, 7:

    tractet arma,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 52:

    quo speciosius ingrediantur sublimes,

    Col. 2, 2, 22.— Sup.:

    contorta hasta (with optime emissa),

    Quint. 9, 4, 8.—
    2.
    Trop.:

    dictum,

    Quint. 9, 4, 14:

    translatum,

    id. 2, 5, 9.— Sup.:

    usus est,

    Quint. 8, 6, 18.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > speciosus

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