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fragrant, a.|ˈfreɪgrənt|
Also 6 fragraunt; see also flagrant 6.
[a. F. fragrant (16th c. in Godefroy) or ad. L. frāgrant-em, pr. pple. of frāgrāre to smell sweetly.]
Emitting a sweet or pleasant odour, sweet-smelling.
1500–20Dunbar ‘Now fayre, fayrest’ 7 Freshe fragrant floure. 1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) xxxii, The fragraunt odour & oyntment of swete floure. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. i. 31 As fresh and fragrant as the floure-deluce She was become. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 645 Fragrant the fertil earth After soft showers. a1721Prior Garland ii, The flowers less blooming than her face, The scent less fragrant than her breath. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. xxi. 178 The springtime stirs within the fragrant birches.
fig.1651Fuller's Abel Rediv., Erasmus 84 In Basil He did end his dayes, As full of yeeres as fragrant fame. 1782Cowper Conversation 631 Their fragrant memory will outlast their tomb. 1827Keble Chr. Y., Churching i. This hallow'd air Is fragrant with a mother's first and fondest prayer.
Hence ˈfragrantly adv.; † ˈfragrantness.
1515Barclay Egloges iv. (1570) C vj/2 As medoes paynted with floures redolent The sight reioyce of suche as them beholde: So man indued with vertue excellent Fragrantly shineth with beames manyfolde. 1555Abp. Parker Ps. xxxiv. 85 Gods goodnes smelleth most fragrantly. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 449 To keepe the aromaticall fragrantnesse in those which smell sweet. 1707J. Mortimer Husb. 137 As the Hops begin to change colour..and smell fragrantly, you may conclude them ripe. |
