a. [f. BOMBAST sb. + -IC.]

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  1.  Of the nature of bombast; inflated, turgid.

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1704.  Key to Rehearsal, Pref. 4. Outdoing them in their Bumbastick Bills.

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1756.  Nugent, Montesquieu’s Spir. Laws, XXVII. i. Frivolous in the substance, and bombastic in the style.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 602. Prior burlesqued, with admirable spirit and pleasantry, the bombastic verses in which Boileau had celebrated the first taking of Namur.

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1861.  Tulloch, Eng. Purit., ii. 326. His bombastic words signify nothing.

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  2.  Given to the use of bombastic language.

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1727.  De Foe, Hist. Appar., iv. (1840), 30. A certain bombastic Author.

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1864.  Kingsley, Rom. & Teut., iii. 59. Claudian, the poet, a bombastic panegyrist of Roman scoundrels.

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