eximious
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Excellent; eminent; distinguished.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adjective Pre-eminent, outstanding.
Examples
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Neil MacGregor, the BM's eximious director and presenter of Radio 4's "History of the World in One Hundred Objects" , accurately stated that "this exhibition is a fantastic example of collaboration between the British Museum and its partners across the UK."
British Museum handsomely fulfils its duties to England outside London
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Is it so exaltated, eximious, extraoldandairy and excels-siorising?
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There is that eximious infatuation with language, the sheer, lush love of the sound for the sound of it, sense be damned.
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Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.
Note
The word 'eximious' comes from a Latin word meaning 'select, outstanding'.
