a. Obs. [f. L. stultitia folly, f. stultus foolish; see -ITY and -OUS.] Foolish, ridiculous.
1547. Boorde, Introd. Knowl., ii. (1870), 127. In Wales … is vsed these two stulticious matters.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., I. 40. The Duke … espouseth the sea,… by casting a golden ring into it. Which Stultitious ceremony by Pope Alexander the third was graunted.
Hence † Stultitiously adv. Obs.
1536. Boorde, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. II. 305. Then stultycyusly … I dyd as many of that Order doth.
