high-sighted

English

Adjective

high-sighted (comparative more high-sighted, superlative most high-sighted)

1. (obsolete) haughty or arrogant.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     So let high-sighted tyranny range on

References

• “high-sighted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.