a. Also 7 splend’rous, splendrous, 8–9 splendourous. [f. splendor SPLENDOUR sb.] Full of splendor; resplendent, bright.

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1591.  Drayton, Moyses Map Miracle (1604), 70. Himselfe inuested in a splendorous flame. Ibid. (1594), Idea, 215. Your Beautie is the hot and splend rous Sunne. Ibid. (1627), Agincourt, 35. In Warlike state the Royall Standard borne Before him, as in splendrous Armes he road.

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1639.  G. Daniel, Ecclus. xxv. 31. Splendrous, and in a height Transcending all bright Iustice.

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1796.  P. L. Courtier, Pleas. Solitude (1802), 85. In Corydon’s splendourous Ball.

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1871.  G. Macdonald, Wks. Fancy & Imag., III. 215. A light that … spreads a finer joy, Than cloudless noon-tide splendorous o’er the world.

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