(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:36:55

Fat"u*ous (?), a. [L. fatuus.]

1.

Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.

Glanvill.

2.

Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus.

Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.

 

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