spatious

English

Etymology

From Latin spatiōsus.

Adjective

spatious (comparative more spatious, superlative most spatious)

1. Obsolete form of spacious.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 396:

     That Caſtle was moſt goodly edifyde, / And plaſte for pleaſure nigh that forreſt ſyde: / But faire before the gate a ſpatious playne, / Mantled with greene, it ſelfe did ſpredden wyde, / On which ſhe ſaw ſix knights, that did darrayne / Fiers battaill againſt one, with cruel might and mayne.

   • 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene v, signature C, verso:

     My father dead, my loue attaint of luſt: / Thats a large lye, as vaſt as ſpatious hell: / Poore guiltleſſe Ladie.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 135”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature I, recto:

     Wilt thou whoſe will is large and ſpatious, / Not once vouchſafe to hide my will in thine, / Shall will in others ſeeme right gracious, / And in my will no faire acceptance ſhine: […]

   • 1695, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius, translated by Richard Lord Viscount Preston, […] Of the Consolation of Philosophy. […], London: […] J. D. for Awnsham and John Churchill, […]; and Francis Hildyard […], page 162:

     And when this ſpatious Courſe is run, / She to the outmoſt Sphere doth come, / And doth its Limits paſs, / And then the Convex back ſhe’ll preſs / Of the ſwift Æther, then ſhe’ll be / Prepar’d th’ Empyrean Source of Light to ſee.

Derived terms

• spatiously
• spatiousness