a. [In early use f. med.L. *splendifer (for late L. splendōrifer): cf. OF. splendifere. In mod. use jocular SPLENDACIOUS a.) and orig. U.S.]

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  † 1.  Full of, abounding in, splendor. Obs.

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c. 1460.  G. Ashby, Dicta Philos., 1031. Who that is wele cherisshed with a king And is with hym grete & splendiferous.

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1538.  Bale, Br. Com. J. Bapt., in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), I. 215. O tyme most ioyfull, daye most splendiferus.

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1546.  Coverdale, Calvin’s Treat. Sacram., D j. Seyng that ye bryght and splendiferouse veritie is of it selfe able to confute so absurde a vanitie.

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  2.  colloq. Remarkably fine; magnificent.

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1843.  Haliburton, Sam Slick in Eng., xiii. A splendiferous white hoss, with long tail and flowin’ mane.

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1854.  P. B. St. John, Amy Moss, 283. I only escaped … by means of a splendiferous girl call’d Kate.

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1863.  C. Reade, Hard Cash, xxviii. II. 188. I see the splendiferous articles arrive, and then they vanish for ever.

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