August

Word of the Day for  Saturday 22 ^nd February 2014

August  \ aw-GUHST \,  adjective :

1.  venerable; eminent:  an august personage . 2.  inspiring reverence or admiration, of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic:  an august performance of a religious drama .

Lafayette spoke, and bade farewell to Lamarque: it was a touching and  august  moment, - all heads were uncovered, and all hearts beat.
- Victor Hugo,  Les Misérables  (in translation), 1862

Now, deserted by His monarch, far from home, trapped in the laboratory Poder Tower as the chief alchemist involved-in the longevity elixir, this  august  gentleman had to use All His ingenuity and cunning to simply save His Own Life.
- Frances Sherwood,  The Book of Splendor , 2003

August  comes from the Latin  augustus  meaning "venerable, noble." It Inglese Entered in the 1660s.

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