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ceremonious

adj
/sɛ.ɹɪˈməʊ.nɪ.əs/UK/ˌsɛ.ɹəˈmoʊ.ni.əs/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *kʷer-✻ — “to build, make; to do”
  2. derived from caerimōnia — “awe, reverence, veneration; sacredness, sanctity; religious ceremony, ritual”
  3. learned borrowing from caerimōniōsus
  4. learned borrowing from cérémonieux

Definitions

  1. According to the required or usual ceremonies, formalities, or rituals

    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.
    • VVhen vve deſcribe our ſenſations of another's ſorrovvs, either in friendly or ceremonious condolence, the cuſtoms of the vvorld ſcarcely admit of rigid veracity.

  2. Involving much ceremony

    Involving much ceremony; ostentatious, showy.

    • O, the Sacrifice, / Hovv ceremonious, ſolemne, and vn-earthly / It vvas i'th' Offring?
    • This is the day, when, in a foreign grave, / King Owen [Owain Gwynedd]'s relics shall be laid to rest. / […] / No mitred abbots, and no tonsured train, / Lengthened the pomp of ceremonious woe.
    • He descended to the cabin to bid a ceremonious, and, it may be, tacitly rebukeful adieu.

  3. Of a person

    Of a person: fond of ceremony or ritual, or of observing strict etiquette or formality; punctilious.

    • His onely delight is building, he ſpends himſelfe to get curious intricate models and plots, another is vvholly ceremonious about titles, degrees, inſcriptions.
    • Ancient and oriental cultures are in many ways more conventional, more ceremonious, and more courteous than our own.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Synonym of ceremonial (“of, relating to, consisting of, or used in a ceremony or rite”)

      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.
      • The other Princes vvere reſerued to a more opportune maſſacre, vntil Sultan Currovvn had entred Agra, and receiued the Imperial Crovvne and Scepter, vvith other Ceremonious rites due to the Coronation, of the Great Moguls.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ceremonious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ceremonious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at ceremonious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA