Fastidiôsus, pen. prod. Adiectiuum. Cicero. Ful of disdaine, loathing, or wearinesse.Fastidiosus literarum latinarum.Cicer.That disdaineth, nothing esteemeth, or maketh no account of latine learning.Aurium sensus fastidiosissimus. Author ad Here. The sense of the eare is most disdaineful and soonest offended.In æquos & pares fastidiosus. Author ad Heren. Prowde and disdaineful towarde.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fastīdĭōsus, a, um, adj. [fastidium], full of disgust or aversion.I.Pass., that feels disgust, squeamish, disdainful, scornful, fastidious (class.). A.Lit.: vaccae fastidiosae fiunt, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 15: aurium sensus fastidiosissimus, Auct. Her. 4, 23, 32: quod ille fastidiosus est, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 18. —B.Trop.: quamvis fastidiosus aedilis est, Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 42: in superiores contumax, in aequos et pares fastidiosus, in inferiores crudelis, etc., Auct. Her. 4, 40, 52: ex hac infinita licentia haec summa cogitur, ut ita fastidiosae, mollesque mentes evadant civium, ut, etc., Cic. Rep. 1, 43 fin.: Antonius facilis in causis recipiendis erat, fastidiosior Crassus, Cic. Brut. 57, 207.— With gen.: C. Memmius perfectus Iitteris, sed Graecis: fastidiosus sane Latinarum, id. ib. 70, 247: dominus terrae Fastidiosus, Hor. C. 3, 1, 37: aestimator, i. e.
that rates altogether too high
, Sen. Ben. 1, 11: fastidiosissimum mancipium, i. e.
excessively haughty
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proud
, Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 14: est res difficilis, ardua, fastidiosa, id. ib. 6, 17, 5.—II.Act., that creates disgust, disgusting, loathsome, disagreeable (very rare; not in Cic.): fastidiosam desere copiam, Hor. C. 3, 29, 9: fastidiosā tristis aegrimoniā, id. Epod. 17, 73. —Hence, fastīdĭōse, adv., squeamishly, scornfully, disdainfully, fastidiously (freq. in Cic.; elsewh. very rare): huic ego jam stomachans fastidiose, Immo ex Sicilia, inquam, Cic. Planc. 27, 65: spectare, id. de Or. 1, 61, 258; cf.: diligenter et prope fastidiose judicare, id. ib. 1, 26, 118: lente ac fastidiose probare, id. Att. 2, 1, 1: recipior in coetum, Phaedr. 3 prol. 23: venditare aliquid, Petr. 13.—Comp.: fastidiosius ad hoc genus sermonis accedere, Cic. de Or. 2, 89, 364.