altitudinous

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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

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From Time Magazine Archive

You would not risk your neck to read My much too altitudinous screed, And I, chagrined and half-perplexed, Had missed you when I missed my text— Get Next.

From Impertinent Poems by Cooke, Edmund Vance

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

"It is not that the temperature is excessively altitudinous," responded the Parson, "but the presence of a larger proportion of humidity retards perspiratory exudation."

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Sinclair, Upton