Pomp
[pomp] /pɒmp/
noun
1.
stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence.
2.
ostentatious or vain display, especially of dignity or importance.
3.
pomps, displays, actions, or things:
The official was accompanied by all the pomps of his high position.
4.
Archaic. a stately or splendid procession; pageant.
/pɒmp/
noun
1.
stately or magnificent display; ceremonial splendour
2.
vain display, esp of dignity or importance
3.
(obsolete) a procession or pageant
n.
c.1300, from Old French pompe “pomp, magnificence” (13c.) and directly from Latin pompa “procession, pomp,” from Greek pompe “solemn procession, display,” literally “a sending,” from pempein “to send.” In Church Latin, used in deprecatory sense for “worldly display, vain show.”
POMP (pē’ō-ěm-pē’)
n.
A drug used in cancer chemotherapy and composed of purinethol (6-mercaptopurine), Oncovin (vincristine sulfate), methotrexate, and prednisone.
Purinethol, Oncovin, methotrexate, and prednisone
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