August 15

/ɔːˈɡʌst/ · adjective

Meaning

Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable..

Definitions by Sense

1. Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
2. Of noble birth.
3. (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.
4. (obsolete, rare) To bring to realization.
5. Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”).

Example Sentences

an august patron of the arts

In the book of Pſalms there are many things ſaid of David, which ſeem capable of a much auguſter ſenſe than can be pretended to be anſwered by any thing that befel himſelf.

[W]e shall not, I think, be able to find language which can convey in few words more fully the idea we should always have impressed on our minds of the august character of our Lord, than the expression, "the word of life."

The commands of the august sovereign are the imperial commands, or the phœnix (the incomparable) mandate.

—Inconsciously to the augustest end / Thou hast arisen: second not in rank / So much as time, to him who first ordained / That Florence, thou art to destroy, should be— […]

The foolish dog […] flew at the cat, who in her fright and consternation took refuge behind the screen of the breakfast-room where his Majesty then was. The Mikado was greatly shocked and agitated. He took the cat into his august bosom, and summoning the chamberlain Tadataka, gave orders that Okinamaro should have a good thrashing and be banished to Dog Island at once.

For once the story was not about Jamie Vardy, unable to equal Jimmy Dunne's top-flight record of scoring in a dozen consecutive games, but about his august deputy Riyad Mahrez.

Countless proposals flooded in, sent by sources as august as the World Academy of Sciences and as humble as elementary schools.

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Word Forms

• auguster
• more august
• augustest
• most august
• augusts
• augusting
• augusted

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