Adjective

(en adjective)

Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.

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Grand or noble in action.

Exceptional for its kind.

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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

(lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.

; far-fetched; abstruse.

Of special beauty or rare excellence.

Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.

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Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

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*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

*:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite