Middle English Dictionary Entry
fastidiǒus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | fastidiǒus adj. |
| Etymology | L fastīdiōsus, OF fastidieux. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Distasteful, wearisome, loathsome; (b) distainful, haughty.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.15/27 : Howe with vntrew despitys he was deformyd, And whate fastidious owtbrekyngis hadde temptid hym.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.721 : Nature is suche hit is not to dispeyre Latte if she be, for targyng may not be ffastidiose in here eternyte.
b
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.13 : Y..schalle prosecute my processe, perauenture contemptible to fastidious men [Trev.: envious men and proude; L fastidiosis], but..not vnprofitable to goode studentes.
- c1475(1459) Pros.Yorkists in EHR 26 (Roy 17.D.15)518 : They..by thar fastigious [read: fastidious] and usurped power did mayntein and auctoryse thaire execrable trespas.