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aestiferous

aestiferous

See also: æstiferous

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aestiferous (comparative more aestiferous, superlative most aestiferous)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.

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  1. 1 2 †æˈstiferous, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  2. 1 2 The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language by John Ash (1775), page 4953?
    ÆSTIʹFEROUS (adj. from the Lat. æstus a turbulent motion, and fero to bear) Turbulent as the tide.
  3. 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).
  4. An Universal Etymological English Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1731), page 28
    ÆSTIʹFEROUS [æstifer, L.] ebbing and flowing as the tide.