While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.
Id., ib. vii. 563.
What pompous powers of ravishment were here,[22]
What delicate extremities of pleasure.
Beaumont, Psyche, can. xv. st. 299.
All expresses related that the entertainment [of Prince Charles at Madrid] was very pompous and kingly.—Hacket, Life of Archbishop Williams, part i. p. 119.
He [Hardecnute] gave his sister Gunildis, a virgin of rare beauty, in marriage to Henry the Alman Emperor; and to send her forth pompously, all the nobility contributed their jewels and richest ornaments.—Milton, History of England, b. vi.
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He was ‘popular’ once, not who had acquired, but who was laying himself out to acquire, the favour of the people. ‘Popularity’ was the wooing, not, as now, the having won, that favour; exactly the Latin ‘ambitio.’ The word, which is passive now, was active then.
Of a senator he [Manlius] became popular, and began to break his mind and impart his designs unto the magistrates of the commons, finding fault with the nobility.—Holland, Livy, 224.