august

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  1. adjective Inspiring awe or admiration; majestic: the august presence of the monarch. See Synonyms at grand.
  2. adjective Venerable for reasons of age or high rank.

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  • The remembrance of this kindness helped to calm our grief, and I confess that it is at once both an honor and a consolation to recall the august sympathy which the loss of this dear child excited in the hearts of Napoleon and Josephine. —  Recollections of the private life of Napoleon
  • Duplication or distribution of this work by email, floppy disk, network, paper print out, or any other method is a violation of international copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines and/or imprisonment. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Both the Parkinson and Nippon-Turner consortia were rather tired of being told that They were bent By paths coincident On being anon twin halves of one august event They hoped that it would be 'august' - but not, if they could possibly help it, coincident. —  The Ghost from the Grand Banks
  • The second day of august was getting down to business when we reached the living room. —  Operation Luna
  • Neither royalty nor the august peerage of the Free Isles merited exception. —  Shadowfane
 

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illustrious ·  royal ·  majestic ·  gracious ·  holy ·  exalt ·  heavenly ·  aristocratic ·  honorable ·  saintly ·  lawful ·  beloved
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin augustus; see aug- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French auguste = Spanish Portuguese Italian augusto, from Latin augustus, venerable, worthy of honor (assumed as a title by Octavius Cæsar and his successors), perhaps orig. ‘consecrated by augury,’ from augur, augur (cf. robust, from Latin robustus, from robur); but usually associated with augere, increase, extol: see auction.
  2. = French aouûter, ripen, = Spanish agostar, be parched, dial. plow land in August, pasture cattle on stubble in summer (see agostadero); from August, n.
 

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