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diluvian, a.|dɪˈl(j)uːvɪən|
Also 8–9 de-.
[f. L. dīluvi-um flood + -an: see diluvial.]
Of or pertaining to a deluge; esp. of the Noachian Flood.
1655Evelyn Diary 28 Aug., From the calculation of coincidence with the diluvian period. 1696Whiston Th. Earth ii. (1722) 202 The Diluvian matter from two Comets' Atmosphere contained in it a great quantity of..stony particles. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser Prel. 3 Of the Diluvian Ark, mentioned Gen. 6. 1766Pennant Zool. (1768) I. 41 Remains which fossilists distinguish by the title of diluvian. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 87 A shock so violent and universal as that which pervaded the globe during the diluvian revolution. 1823W. Buckland Reliq. Diluv. 39 Scattered by the violence of the diluvian waters. 1862Lytton Str. Story II. 235 On the surface of uplands undulating like diluvian billows fixed into stone in the midst of their stormy swell.
Hence diˈluvianism, a theory which attributes certain phenomena to a universal deluge.
1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. I. 272 The cosmogony of the Virginians seems also to be mingled with diluvianism. 1885Whitney in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 765/2 Linguistic philology has been..created..out of the crude observations and wild deductions of earlier times, as truly as chemistry out of alchemy, or geology out of diluvianism. |