a. [f. L. fortitūdin-em (see FORTITUDE) + -OUS.] Endowed with or characterized by fortitude.
1751. Fielding, Amelia, Wks. 1775, X. 224. He had the honour to introduce to him as brave and as fortitudinous a man as any in the king’s dominions.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., III. lii. 262. These fortitudinous heroes are awed by the superior fierceness of the lions and tigers.
1878. Morley, Carlyle, Crit. Misc. Ser. I. 175. Labour in a high spirit, duty done, and right service performed in fortitudinous temper here was, not indeed a way out, but a way of erect living within.
