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eruptive, a.|ɪˈrʌptɪv| [a. Fr. éruptif, -ive, f. ērupt- ppl. stem of ērumpĕre: see erupt and -ive.] 1. Bursting forth; inclined or accustomed to break out from restraint, or to burst into violent action.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 143 All which is perverted in this eruptive generation. 1744Thomson Summer 1132 The sudden glance [lightning] Appears far south eruptive through the cloud. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. 65 The eruptive and the aggressive manner in literature. 1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-Cap 117 Hell, eruptive and fuliginous, Sickens to very pallor. 2. Of or pertaining to volcanic eruption; tending to or engaged in eruption; of the nature of or characterized by eruption. Of rocks: Formed or forced up by eruption, showing traces of eruption.
1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 288 Into these errors Mr. Whitehurst was betrayed by his fondness for the eruptive or plutonic theory. 1819Byron Proph. Dante iii. 187 The volcano's fierce eruptive crest. 1849Murchison Siluria v. 92 Crystalline rock, both eruptive and metamorphic. 1869Phillips Vesuv. iii. 79 Within the crater was found a round and small actively eruptive cone. 1878Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. ii. 262 The eruptive protuberances. quasi-n.1884Irving in Amer. Jrnl. Sc. Ser. iii. (1885) XXIX. 241 The gneisses..forming our supposed eruptives, are if eruptive, manifestly not to be compared with the lavas of modern times. 3. Path. Attended with or producing eruption or efflorescence.
1790Sir W. Fordyce Virtues Mur. Acid. 1 The striking effects produced by the spirit of sea-salt in all our putrid diseases..I mean the Eruptive fevers. 1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. (1842) II. 279 It is in the nature of these eruptive diseases in the state to sink in by fits, and re-appear. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 207/2 Antimony is also used in some eruptive or exanthematous fevers. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) III. v. 41 A serious attack of illness of an eruptive kind. b. transf. (humorous.)
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxiii, Thomas wears a page's costume of eruptive buttons. Hence eˈruptively a., in an eruptive manner. eˈruptiveness, the quality of being eruptive. erupˈtivity = eruptiveness.
1869Daily News 1 July, The candlesticks all over knobs and excrescences as if eruptively affected. 1885G. Meredith Diana Crossw. I. i. 19 They create by stoppage a volcano, and are amazed at its eruptiveness. 1882Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iv. vii. 537 They possess likewise various values as marks of eruptivity. |