2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer
work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
Reason and morals? and where live they most, In
Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! --Byron.
2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, --
sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
The boast of historians. --Macaulay.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should
boast. --Eph. ii. 8,
9.
2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to
exult.
In God we boast all the day long. --Ps. xliv. 8
Syn: To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.
Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds.
--Milton.
2. To display vaingloriously.
3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
{To boast one's self}, to speak with unbecoming confidence
in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the
thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]
Boast not thyself of to-morrow. --Prov. xxvii.
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