Meanings
plural fustianists
- archaicA pompous writer.
I feel convinced therefore that your Lordship, fustianist though you may be, must have blushed to indulge in such pribble prabble
1834, a member of the Univversity of Cambridge, A Letter to the Right Rev. Dr. Philpotts1 more example
and in their choice preferring the gay rankneſs of Apuleius, Arnobius, or any modern Suſtianiſt, before the native Latiniſms of Cicero.
1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 193
Origin
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