ppl. a. [f. BOMBAST v., which see for pronunciation.]

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  † 1.  Stuffed or padded with cotton-wool; puffed out. Obs.

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1583.  Stubbes, Anat. Abus. (1877), 55. Stuffed, bombasted and sewed.

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1611.  Markham, Countr. Content. (1649), 111. Which Hats are soft bumbasted roules of leather.

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1626.  T. H., trans. Caussin’s Holy Crt., 224. Your garments playted, bumbasted, loose hanged.

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  2.  Inflated, turgid (language). arch.

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1589.  Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 266. Vsing such bombasted wordes, as seeme altogether farced full of winde.

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1631.  R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, xi. § 1. 99. With braggodokean and bumbasted words.

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1829.  Southey, in Q. Rev., XXXIX. 103. The bombasted heroics of Dryden’s tragedy.

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  † 3.  Characterized by bombast. Obs.

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a. 1619.  Fotherby, Atheom., II. i. § 8 (1622), 190. Leontinus Gorgias, that bombasted Sophister.

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1620.  Melton, Astrolog., 15. The souldiers bumbasted Tongue.

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