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ebullient|ɪˈbʌlɪənt|
[ad. L. ēbullient-em, pr. pple. of ēbullīre; see prec.]
1. That boils; boiling; agitated, as if boiling.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 4/1 Let this bottle remayne one hower in hot ebullient water. 1814Cary Dante (1871) 304 Every cirque Ebullient shot forth scintillating fires. 1842G. P. Scrope Volcanos 14 Lava in a liquid and ebullient state.
2. a. Of the humours of the body: Agitated, hot, effervescent. b. Of drugs and diseases: Causing heat and agitation.
1620Venner Via Recta iv. 79 The same is of an hot and ebullient nature. Ibid. (1650) 161 They engender ebullient humors. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 226 The body is affected..as if some part were put in boiling water, wherefore some have called this the Ebullient Ague. 1727Swift Gulliver iii. vi. 216 Great counsels are often troubled with..ebullient..humours. 1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 1320 They scarce can swallow their ebullient spleen.
3. fig. Of energy, feelings, influences: Gushing forth like boiling water; bubbling over, overflowing, enthusiastic. Constr. with.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. vii. 126 That fountain of life which ought to be ebullient in every Regenerate Christian. 1828Southey Ess. (1832) I. 352 The general and ebullient feeling with which all Britain overflowed imposed silence upon the lying lips. 1844Blackw. Mag. LVI. 532 His commentaries on the past are ebullient with subtlety. 1876G. P. Lathrop in N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 429 The ebullient undulating prose style of the poet.
Hence eˈbulliently adv.
1887Punch 10 Sept. 110 Ebulliently sentimental novelist. |