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aestiferous
aestiferous
See also: æstiferous
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) æstiferous
- estiferous
Adjective
aestiferous (comparative more aestiferous, superlative most aestiferous)
- (obsolete, not comparable)[1] “Turbulent as the tide”;[2] “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.[4]
- 1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)
- Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.
- Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
- 1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)
- (comparable, chiefly used figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.[3]
- 1979: J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, page 148 (Southern Illinois University Press; ISBN 0809309149, 9780809309146)
- Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.
- 1979: J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, page 148 (Southern Illinois University Press; ISBN 0809309149, 9780809309146)
Related terms
terms related to aestiferous
Translations
turbulent as the tide; ebbing and flowing as the tide
producing much heat
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References
- 1 2 “†æˈstiferous, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
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1 2 The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language by John Ash (1775), page 49–53?
ÆSTIʹFEROUS (adj. from the Lat. æstus a turbulent motion, and fero to bear) Turbulent as the tide. -
1 2 A Dictionary of the English Language Exhibiting the Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definition of Words… by Arnold James Cooley (1861), page 198
Estiferous, ĕs-tĭfʹ-ĕr-ŭs, a. Bringing heat (as summer). -
↑ An Universal Etymological English Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1731), page 28
ÆSTIʹFEROUS [æstifer, L.] ebbing and flowing as the tide.