fetuous

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛtjuəs/, /ˈfɛt͡ʃuəs/

Adjective

fetuous (comparative more fetuous, superlative most fetuous)

1. (obsolete) Neat.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Fairie Temple: Or, Oberons Chappell. Dedicated to Mr. John Merrifield, Counsellor at Law.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 103:

     Upon this fetuous board doth ſtand / Something for Shevv-bread, and at hand / (Juſt in the middle of the Altar) / Upon an end, the Fairie-Pſalter, […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fetuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)