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exuberant, a.|ɛgˈzjuːbərənt|
[ad. L. exūberant-em, pr. pple. of exūberāre, f. ex- (see ex- prefix1) + ūberāre to be fruitful, f. ūber fertile, connected with ūber udder. Cf. F. exubérant.]
1. Luxuriantly fertile or prolific; abundantly productive. Also fig.
1645Evelyn Diary 29 Jan., Vines..so exuberant that..one vine will loade 5 mules with its grapes. 1728Morgan Algiers II. v. 313 A paltry Recompense for the exuberant Rhodes. 1759B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 12 The Earth has been so exuberant in the Production of this Metal. 1788W. Gilpin Ess. Prints 163 His fancy is exceedingly fruitful..It is indeed too exuberant. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Poet. & Imag. Wks. (Bohn) III. 168 We know Nature, and figure her exuberant..in her fertility. 1871Rossetti Jenny Poems 109 Love's exuberant hotbed.
2. Growing luxuriantly; produced in superabundance or excess.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 607 A pure perfyte plante..Merveylous by growynge..with dyuers proprytes, of grace exuberaunt. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort., August (1679) 22 Cleanse your vines from exuberant branches. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 583 Both..may perish with hunger in the midst of our exuberant crops. 1848Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 99 Races bearing an exuberant growth of hair. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. i. 9 An exuberant and therefore a restless population.
¶ Misused for ‘superfluous’.
1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 157 An Exuberant Servant..is better spared, than a Charity to one of these.
3. Of a fountain, stream, etc.: Overflowing. [Cf. Virg. æn. vii. 465 exuberat amnis.]
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 595 He as it were an Exuberant Fountain, this as a Stream derived from him. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xvi. 105 Even the Sextile..is found at times to usher in exuberant Flouds. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 18 Life's exuberant sea.
4. fig.
a. Of affections, joyous emotions, beneficence, vitality, health, or their manifestations: Overflowing, abounding.
1648Boyle Seraph. Love xi, Such exuberant goodness as may justly ravish us to an amazement. 1711Addison Spect. No. 169 ⁋8 Such an exuberant Love to Mankind. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 616 An exuberant health without any judgment to guide it, will never make either a happy or a useful man. 1828Macaulay Hallam Ess. 1854 I. 59 An age of exuberant zeal. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. vi. 85 The English in their exuberant strength.
b. Of persons, their actions or expressions: Effusive in display of feeling. Now more usually, Abounding in health and spirits, overflowing with delight.
1503Hawes Examp. Virt. vii. 131, I vnto you must be well exuberaunt. 1753Johnson Adventurer No. 58 ⁋3 Exuberant praise bestowed by others. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 48 He has been..exuberant in his encomiums upon individuals. 1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. i, She seemed an animated..exuberant creature. 1866Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 323 An exuberant letter from Charles Kingsley. 1874Helps Soc. Press. xxv. 395 After exuberant demonstrations to me.
c. Of diction or composition: Copious, diffuse, lavish in ornament.
1654Fuller Ephemeris Pref. 6 Here may they observe the variety of eloquence in severall persons, some large, copious and exuberant. 1715Pope Iliad Pref. D ij b, His Similes have been thought too exuberant, and full of Circumstances. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola iii. xxxviii, Exclamations of joy and wailing, mingled with exuberant narrative.
d. Of wealth or stores: Overflowing, abundant. Of expenditure or display: Lavish, profuse.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies iii. iv. 499 Our Collections are more exuberant than Stow's. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 101 ⁋4 My fortune being by no means exuberant. 1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. 1842 II. 349 The exuberant display of wealth in our shops. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. II. i. 99 The exuberant charities of the church. |