Adjective: celebrious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more celebrious |
| Superlative | most celebrious |
Sample Sentences
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For vvhat elſe did Hubert Archbiſhoppe of Canterbury, […] vvhen in that ſacred and celebrious Aſſembly of all the States, addreſſing for the roiall Inauguration, hee […] perſvvading them by a cunning, but diſloyall ſpeech (vvhich yet ſome by tranſforming, haue more deformed) that the Engliſh Crovvne vvas meerely Arbitrary and Electiue at the peoples deuotion? [1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Iohn Duke of Normandie, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c. […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 5, page 484, column 2:]
Adjectives inflected like celebrious
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin celebr-, celeber + English -ious. See: Latin Adjectives '
celeber'.