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Webster 1913 Edition


Fatuous

Fat′u-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
fatuus
.]
1.
Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.
Glanvill.
2.
Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.
Thence
fatuous
fires and meteors take their birth.
Danham.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fatuous

FAT'UOUS

,
Adj.
[L. fatuus.]
1.
Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish.
2.
Impotent; without force or fire; illusory; alluding to the ignis fatuus.
Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth.