celebrious

From Latin celebr-, celeber + English -ious.

celebrious (comparative more celebrious, superlative most celebrious)

1. (obsolete) Famous, well-known.
   • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Iohn Duke of Normandie, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c. […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 5, page 484, column 2:

     For vvhat elſe did Hubert Archbiſhoppe of Canterbury, […] vvhen in that ſacred and celebrious Aſſembly of all the States, addreſſing for the roiall Inauguration, hee […] perſvvading them by a cunning, but diſloyall ſpeech (vvhich yet ſome by tranſforming, haue more deformed) that the Engliſh Crovvne vvas meerely Arbitrary and Electiue at the peoples deuotion?

• celebrate, celebrated
• celebrity

• “celebrious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.