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English
Adjective
high-stomached (comparative more high-stomached, superlative most high-stomached)
- (archaic) Having a lofty spirit; haughty.
1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 23, column 1:Then call them to our preſence face to face,
And frowning brow to brow, our ſelues will heare
Th’accuſer, and the accuſed, freely ſpeake;
High ſtomack d are they both, and full of ire,
In rage, deafe as the ſea; haſtie as fire.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:They, a chosen people, a vessel of Him they call Jehovah, ay, and a vessel of Baal, and a vessel of Astoreth, and a vessel of the gods of the Egyptians—a high-stomached people, greedy of aught that brought them wealth and power.
1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company , →OCLC:Besides, the art of burning to bed-rock still lay in the womb of the future, and the men of Forty-Mile, shut in by the long Arctic winter, grew high-stomached with over-eating and enforced idleness
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