ceremonious
形容词 adj.
英 /sɛ.ɹɪˈməʊ.nɪ.əs/
美 /ˌsɛ.ɹəˈmoʊ.ni.əs/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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According to the required or usual ceremonies, formalities, or rituals; specifically (Christianity, obsolete), to ceremonial laws in the Bible.
— [L]et vs take a ceremonious leaue, / And louing farevvell of our ſeuerall friends.
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Involving much ceremony; ostentatious, showy.
— O, the Sacrifice, / Hovv ceremonious, ſolemne, and vn-earthly / It vvas i'th' Offring?
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Of a person: fond of ceremony or ritual, or of observing strict etiquette or formality; punctilious.
— [S]ome VVriters do almoſt nothing contrary to yͤ cuſtome, and ſome by vertue of that Priuiledge, dare doe any thing. I am neither of that firſt order, nor of this laſt. The one is too fondly-ceremonious, the other too impudently audacious. I vvalke in the midſt (ſo vvell as I can) betvveene both.
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Synonym of ceremonial (“of, relating to, consisting of, or used in a ceremony or rite”); formal, ritual.
— They [gentiles] may alſo theſiyer [the easier] bee allured to the Chriſtian fayth, for that it is more agreable to the lawe of nature then eyther the cerimonious lawe of Moiſes, or portentous fables of Mahometes Alcharon.
词汇关系
词源
Learned borrowing from Middle French cérémonieux (modern French cérémonieux) or directly from its etymon Latin caerimōniōsus + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)). Caerimōniōsus is derived from Latin caerimōnia (“awe, reverence, veneration; sacredness, sanctity; religious ceremony, ritual”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to build, make; to do”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, overly’ forming adjectives from nouns). By surface analysis, ceremony + -ous.
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