splendidious

English

Etymology

Coined by Michael Drayton in 1627

Adjective

splendidious (comparative more splendidious, superlative most splendidious)

1. (obsolete) splendid
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, “Moses his birth and miracles”, in The Muses Elizium lately discouered‎^[1], page 173:

     Celesliall brightnesse ceazed on his face,
     That did the wondring Israelites amaze,
     When he returned from that souereigne place,
     His browes encireled with splendidious rayes.