All 3 Uses of
copious
in
Middlemarch
- The banker's speech was fluent, but it was also copious, and he used up an appreciable amount of time in brief meditative pauses.†
Chpt 2 *
- A great historian, as he insisted on calling himself, who had the happiness to be dead a hundred and twenty years ago, and so to take his place among the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under, glories in his copious remarks and digressions as the least imitable part of his work, and especially in those initial chapters to the successive books of his history, where he seems to bring his armchair to the proscenium and chat with us in all the lusty ease of…†
Chpt 2
- For the heroic times of copious bleeding and blistering had not yet departed, still less the times of thorough-going theory, when disease in general was called by some bad name, and treated accordingly without shilly-shally—as if, for example, it were to be called insurrection, which must not be fired on with blank-cartridge, but have its blood drawn at once.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(copious) abundant (large in quantity or number)