grandeur 
I confess, what chiefly interests me in the annals of that 
war is Oa grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the 
Indian chiefs. Kinerxon, Hist. Discourse at Concord. 
Size is not yrandtur, and territory does not make a na- 
tion. Huxley, Amer. Addresses, p. 12f>. 
= Syn. Greatness, majesty, loftiness, stateliness, state, dig- 
nity, auguatness, splendor, pomp, sublimity, nee grand. 
grandevityt (gran-dev'i-ti), H. [< L. granda-- 
vita(t-)n, \ granitaivus, of great age: see </r/ui- 
devous.'] Great age ; loug life. Glanvitte. 
grandeVOUSt (gran-de'vus), a. [< L. gnnl<t- 
vus, of great age, < grandis, great, + tmtm, age.] 
Of great age ; long-lived. Bailey. 
grandfather (grand'fft'WHer), . [Early mod. 
E.grauitdfatlter; < grand + father. Gi.f.grand- 
pere.] A father's or mother's father; an an- 
cestor in the next degree above the father or 
mother in lineal ascent: correlative to grand- 
son, granddaughter, and graiitlchild. 
grandfather-long-legS (grand'fa // THer-16ng'- 
legz), n. Same as daddy-long-legs, 2. 
grand-guard (grand ' giird), n. [OF. grande 
garde. J A piece of armor used in medieval 
justs, consisting either of an additional de- 
fense secured to the breastplate or to the low- 
er part of the tilting-armor and rising above 
it, or of a secondary breastplate attached by 
springs to the corselet so that it could be re- 
leased and thrown in the air by a successful 
thrust of the antagonist's lance. 
Arc. You care not for a grand-guard > 
Pal. No, no ; we'll use no horses : I perceive 
You would fain be at that fight. 
Fletcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 6. 
grandific (gran-dif'ik), a. [< LL. grandificus, 
< L. grandis, great, + facere, make.] Making 
great. Bailey, 1727. [Rare or obsolete.] 
grandiloquence (gran-dil'o-kwens), n. [= Sp. 
grandilocuencia = Pg. grandiloquencia = It. 
grandiloquenza ; as grandiloquen(t) + -cc.] The 
condition or quality of being grandiloquent; 
lofty speech or expression ; bombast. 
The prophet has promised them with such magnificent 
words and enthusiastic gratidiioquence. 
Dr. H. More, Mystery of Godliness, p. 271. 
He [Van Poffenburgh] gave importance to his station by 
the grandiloquence of his bulletins, always styling him- 
self Commander-in-chief of the Armies of the New Neth- 
erlands. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 312. 
grandiloquent (gran-dil'6-kwent), a. [= Sp. 
grandilocuente = It. grandiloquente, < L. grandis, 
great, grand, + loquen(t-)s, ppr. ofloqui, speak. 
Of. grandiloquous.] Speaking or expressed in 
a lofty style ; bombastic ; pompous. 
On March 2, 1770, there was a scuffle at a rope-walk be- 
tween some soldiers and the ropemakers, and on the night 
of the 5th there occurred the tragedy which, in the some- 
what grandiloquent phrase of John Adams, "laid the 
foundation of American Independence." 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xli. 
grandiloquous (gran - dil ' o - kwus), a. [= Sp. 
grandilocuo = Pg. grandiloco, < L. grandiloquus, 
speaking grandly or loftily, < grandis, great, + 
loqui, speak.] Same as grandiloquent. [Bare.] 
grandinous (gran'di-nus), a. [< L. grandino- 
sus, full of hail, < grando (grandin-), hail.] Con- 
sisting of hail. [Rare.] 
grandiose (gran'di-6s), a. [< F. grandiose = 
Sp. Pg. grandiose, < It. grandioso, < L. gran- 
dis, great, grand: see grand and -ose.] 1. Im- 
pressive from inherent grandeur ; grand in ef- 
fect; magnificent; imposing. 
Hardly anything could seem more grandiose, or fitter 
to revive in the breasts of men the memory of great dis- 
pensations by which new strata had been laid in the his- 
tory of mankind. George Eliot, Romola, xxi. 
The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down, 
in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole. 
M. Arnold. 
Its proportions so simple and grandiose. 
Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 112. 
2. Characterized by self -display or bombast; 
vulgarly showy or flaunting ; grandiloquent ; 
swollen ; turgid : as, a grandiose style. 
This attenuated journal had . . . an aldermanic, portly, 
grandiose, Falstafttan title. Bulwer, Caxtons, *. 6. 
Now and then, to be sure, we come upon something 
that makes us hesitate again whether, after all, Dryden 
was not grandiose rather than great. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 63. 
grandiosely (grau'di-6s-li), adv. In a grandi- 
ose manner. 
" You will never persuade me to turn my back upon an 
old friend in adversity," she answers grandiosely. 
R. Brouyhttm, Second Thoughts, ii. 2. 
grandiosity (gran-di-os'i-ti), n. [< F. grandi- 
osite (= Sp. grandiosidad = Pg. grandiosidade), 
< It. grandiosita, < grandioso, grandiose : see 
grandiose.] The condition or quality of being 
grandiose ; bombastic or inflated style or man- 
ner. 
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Thomson grows tumid wherever he essays the grandi- 
osity of his model. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 275. 
The good doctor [Johnson) was essentially a preacher, 
and introduced a kind of essay and a grandiosity of style 
which, in feebler hands, soon wrought the decay of this 
species of composition. New Princeton Rev., IV. 241. 
grandioso (gran-di-6'so), a. [It., grand, gran- 
diose: see grandiose.'] Grand: in music, a word 
indicating passages to be so rendered. 
Grandipalpi (grau-di-pal'pi), n. pi. [NL., < L. 
ijntHdiK, great, + palpus, in mod. sense of 
' palp.'] In Latreille's system of classification, 
a group of caraboid beetles : so called from the 
size and shape of the outer palp : distinguished 
from SubulijHiljii. 
Grandisonian (gran-di-so'ni-an), a. Of or per- 
taining to Sir Charles Grandison, the hero of a 
novel by Richardson, who designed by the char- 
acter to represent his ideal of a perfect hero, a 
combination of the good Christian and the per- 
fect English gentleman ; hence, chivalrous and 
polite, especially in a somewhat excessive and 
tedious way. 
grandityt, n. [< OF. grandite, < L. grandita(t-)s, 
greatness, <. grandis, great: see grand.'] Great- 
ness ; magnificence ; grandeur. 
In a Prince It is decent to goe slowly, and to march with 
leysure, and with a certaine granditic rather than graui- 
tie. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 248. 
grandlingr (grand'ling), n. [< grand + -ling 2 ."] 
One who affects grandeur of style. 
But he that should perswade to have this done 
For education of our lordlings : soone 
Should he (not) heare of billow, wind and storme. 
From the tempestuous grandlings. 
B. Jonson, Speech according to Horace. 
grandly (grand'li), adv. In a grand or lofty 
manner; greatly; splendidly; sublimely. 
grandma (grand'ma), n. A colloquial abbrevi- 
ation of grandmamma. 
grandmamma (grand'ma-ma''), n. A familiar 
term for grandmother. 
Your prudent grand-niammas, ye modern belles, . . . 
When health requir'd it would consent to roam, 
Else more attached to pleasures found at home. 
Cowper, Retirement, L 515. 
grand-mercyt, interj. An earlier form of gra- 
merci/. Chaucer. 
grandmother (grand 'muTi^er), n. [< late 
ME. graundmother; < grand + mother. Cf. F. 
grand' mere.~\ 1. The mother of one's father or 
mother: correlative to grandson, granddaugh- 
ter, and grandchild. 
The unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first 
in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice. 
2 Tim. i. 5. 
2. By extension, any more remote lineal female 
ancestor. 
A child of our grandmother Eve ; ... or, for thy more 
sweet understanding, a woman. Shak., L. L. L, i. 1. 
grandmotherly (grand'muTH / 'er-li), a. [< 
grandmother -r -ly 1 .] Pertaining to, resem- 
bling, or characteristic of a grandmother. 
A gentle, pensive, grandmotherly sort of way. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Ladies Lindores, p. 28. 
A grandmotherly being who thinks a student can do no 
wrong. Andover Rev., March, 1885. 
grandnephew (grand'nev"u), n. A son of one's 
nephew or niece : correlative to granduncle and 
grandaunt. 
granclness (grand'nes), n. The quality of be- 
ing grand; greatness; grandeur; magnificence. 
In order to prove to any one the grandness of this fabric 
of the world, one needs only bid him consider the sun with 
that insupportable glory and lustre that surrounds it 
W. WollaMon, Religion of Nature, v. 14. 
grandniece (grand'nes ). . A daughter of one's 
nephew or niece : correlative to granduncle and 
grandaunt. 
grandoH (gran'do), n. [L., hail.] The treadle 
of an egg. See extract under gallature. 
grandest, n. See grandee. 
grandpa (grand'pa), n. A colloquial abbrevi- 
ation of grandpapa. 
grandpapa (grand'pa-pa"), n. A familiar term 
for grandfather. 
grandparent (grand'paVent), n. The parent 
of a parent : correlative to grandchild. 
grandparentage (grand' par" en -taj), n. [< 
grandparent + -age.'] Grandparents collec- 
tively; also, the state of being a grandparent, 
or of having grandparents. 
Certain properties of the law of frequency of error were 
also applied to family likeness in eye colour, with results 
that gave by calculation the total number of light-eyed 
children In families differently g - 
parentage and grandparentage. 
children in families differently grouped according to their 
Nature, XXXIX. 299. 
grand-pauncht (grand'panch), n. A greedy fel- 
low ; a gormand. 
grange 
Our grand-paunches and riotous persons have devised 
for themselves a delicate kind of meat out of corn and 
grain. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xix. 4. 
grandpfere (gron'par'), . A variety of the co- 
tillion formerly common. 
grand-piece (grand'pes), . [F. grande-pii. '<< .J 
A name of certain pieces of armor of the ni.x- 
teenth century. The grand-pieces often mentioned 
were probably the genouillieres, cubitieres, and pauldrons 
that is, the pieces added after tlie coverings of the limbs 
and body were put in place. 
grand-relief (grand're-lef"), In sculp., alto- 
rilievo. 
Grandry corpuscle. See corpuscle. 
grandsire (grand'sir), n. [< ME. grantsyre, 
grauittxirc, gransyre, graunser, < OF. grantsire, 
< grant, grand, great, old, + sire, sire.] 1. A 
grandfather: used for both men and animals, 
and now especially in the pedigrees of horses. 
His graunt-sire, the kynge Adrian, that tho was livy nge, 
counselled hym to take the ordere of knyghthode. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 186. 
2. By extension, any lineal male ancestor pre- 
ceding a father. 
Some sorcerer, whom a far-off grandsire burnt 
Because he cast no shadow. Tennyson, Princess, i. 
3. In change-ringing: (a) One of the methods 
of ringing the changes on a peal of bells : sup- 
posed to be of very early origin. (6) See dou- 
ble, n., 9 (/). 
grandson (grand'sun), n. [< grand + son.'] 
The son or male offspring of a son or daughter : 
correlative to grandfather and grandmother. 
He ... left his coal all turn'd into gold 
To a grandson, first of his noble line. 
Tennyson, Maud, x. 
granduncle (grand'ung"kl), n. [After F. grand- 
oncle. ] The brother of a grandfather or grand- 
mother: in the United States generally called 
great-uncle : correlative to grandnephew and 
grandniece. 
grane 1 (gran), v. and n. A Scotch form of groan. 
They've nae sair wark to craze their banes, 
An' fill auld age wi' grips and granes. 
Burns, The Twa Dogs. 
grane 2 t (gran), i>. t. [Origin obscure.] To 
strangle. 
One executioner on one side, and another on the other, 
graned him with a iinnen cloth about his neck, pulling 
the same untill they forced him to gape. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 112. 
granert, n. [Also granier, var. grainer, grainery, 
granary, garner: see these forms.] A granary; 
a garner. 
There banquet-houses, walks for pleasure ; here again 
Cribs, graners, stables, barns. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, iii. 258. 
That other, if he in his Granier stores 
What ever hath beene swept from Lybian flores. 
Heath, tr. of Horace's Odes, i. 
grange (granj), . [< ME. grange, graunge, 
grange, < OF. grange, granche, graunge, F. 
grange = Pr. granja, granga = Sp. Pg. granja, 
< ML. granea, a barn, grange, < L. granum, 
grain, corn: see grain 1 , granary, garner.] If. 
A granary. 
For their teeming flocks and granges full, 
In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 175. 
2f. A farming establishment, including the 
farm-buildings and granary, attached to a feu- 
dal manor or to a religious house, where, in ad- 
dition to its own crops, the grain paid as rent 
and tithes was stored. 
At the moated grange resides this dejected Mariana. 
Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 
A grange, in its original signification, meant a farmhouse 
of a monastery, . . . from which it was always at some 
little distance. One of the monks was usually appointed 
to inspect the accounts of the farm. He was called the 
prior of the grange. Malone. 
3. A farm, with its dwelling-house, stables, 
byres, barns, etc. ; particularly, a house or 
farm at a distance from other houses or vil- 
lages ; the dwelling of a yeoman or gentleman 
farmer. 
He . . . ledde hym forth to lauacrum lex-dei, a graunge, 
Is sixe myle other seuene by-syde the newe markett. 
Piers Plouinan (C), xi. 71. 
What tell'st thon me of robbing? this is Venice ; 
My house is not a grange- Shak., Othello, L 1. 
Fill him with joy, and win him a friend to ye, 
And make this little grange seem a large empire 
Let out with home contents. 
Fletcher (and another"!). Prophetess, v. 
And from the distant grange there comes 
The clatter of the thresher's flail. 
Bryant, Song of the Sower. 
4. In the United States, a lodge of the order 
of "Patrons of Husbandry," a secret associa- 
