bombasted, ppl. a.
[f. bombast v., which see for pronunciation.]
† 1. Stuffed or padded with cotton-wool; puffed out. Obs.
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1877) 55 Stuffed, bombasted and sewed. 1611 Markham Countr. Content. (1649) 111 Which Hats are soft bumbasted roules of leather. 1626 T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 224 Your garments playted, bumbasted, loose hanged. |
2. Inflated, turgid (language). arch.
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 266 Vsing such bombasted wordes, as seeme altogether farced full of winde. 1631 R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creat. xi. §1. 99 With braggodokean and bumbasted words. 1829 Southey in Q. Rev. XXXIX. 103 The bombasted heroics of Dryden's tragedy. |
† 3. Characterized by bombast. Obs.
| a 1619 M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. i. §8. (1622) 190 Leontinus Gorgias, that bombasted Sophister. 1620 Melton Astrolog. 15 The souldiers bumbasted Tongue. |