altitudinous

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Example from Joyce: ''The Ondt was a welltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, some persons really are affected by altitude, but weariness, lack of muscular as well as mental control, often creates altitudinous illusion.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)

Or if he does his idea of Christianity is not so altitudinous that he can stand on its apex and keep the flies off the man in the moon.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

Ensconced upon the more altitudinous seat of authority he swung his lash out with a report like a starting-gun and made his way, with the necessary language, across the open and up Claxton Road.

From The Wrong Woman by Stewart, Charles D.