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fuliginous, a.|fjuːˈlɪdʒɪnəs|
Also 7 -enous, -inus.
[ad. L. fūlīginōs-us, f. fūlīgo soot: see -ous. Cf. F. fuligineux, -euse.]
1. Pertaining to, consisting of, containing, or resembling soot; sooty.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. v, It offends commonly if it be to..fuligenous, cloudy, blustering, or a tempestuous Aire. 1638Wilkins New World i. (1684) 73 This Fuliginus matter, which did thus obscure the Sun, must needs be very near his Body. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 334 A sootish and fuliginous matter proceeding from the sulphur of bodies torrified. 1684Evelyn Diary 24 Jan., London..was so filled with the fuliginous steam of the sea-coal, that hardly could one see across the streets. 1731Hales Stat. Ess. I. 260 In great cities where the air is full of fuliginous vapours. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Praise of Chimneysweepers, The fuliginous concretions, which are sometimes found (in dissections) to adhere to the roof of the mouth in these unfledged practitioners. 1842De Quincey Pagan Oracles Wks. VIII. 222 A huge octagon lamp, that apparently never had been cleaned from smoke and fuliginous tarnish.
fig.c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 107 Prayer compar'd with praise, is but a fuliginous smoak issuing from the sense of sin. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xix, His ideas..all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter! 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) IV. 3 A very fuliginous set of doctrines. 1860Trollope Castle Richmond II. 80 The debate went on..with many sparks..of eager benevolence, and some few passing clouds of fuliginous self-interest.
b. Covered or blackened with soot. Chiefly in humorously bombastic use.
a1763[see fuliginously]. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iii. xv, To that dingy fuliginous Operative, emerging from his soot-mill. 1865Dublin Univ. Mag. II. 32 A fuliginous suburb of factories. a1876M. Collins Pen Sketches (1879) I. 59 The pleasant gardens..are a delight and a luxury to the Londoner escaped from some close fuliginous domicile. 1884Pall Mall G. 16 Oct. 1/1 All the world is peering down the fuliginous chimney.
†2. In old physiology applied to certain thick ‘vapours’ or ‘exhalations’ said to be formed by organic combustion, and noxious to the head and vital parts. Obs.
1574Newton Health Mag. 53 Those apples..repel and drive away all fuliginous moyste vapours which trouble the harte and strike up into the head. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. v. i. iv, It is not amiss to bore the scull with an instrument to let out the fuliginous vapours. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 57 The grosser Steams that continually perspire out of our own Bodies..are the fuliginous Eructations of that internal fire, that constantly burns within us. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Bath, It will be attended with these two Advantages, viz. the Dissipation of the fuliginous Excrements, and drawing out the superfluous Humours.
3. (Chiefly Nat. Hist.) Soot-coloured, dusky.
[1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 290 The upper part of the Body is brown, or Fulgineous (sic).] 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 339 A morbid deep-coloured bile, fulvous, greenish, or fuliginous. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 282 Fuliginous, the opaque black of soot. 1869O. W. Holmes Cinders from Ashes in Old Vol. Life (1891) 247 An older and much bigger boy, or youth, with a fuliginous complexion. 1874Coues Birds N.W. 642 Entire plumage deep sooty or fuliginous blackish.
Hence fuˈliginously adv., fuˈliginousness.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 222 When this sinke of Melancholy is once exhausted, and all fuliginousnesse banished. 1652French Yorksh. Spa ii. 27 According to the fuliginousness of vapours more or less recoiling, the fire is more or less choaked. a1763Shenstone Wks. (1764) I. 114 To rear some breathless vapid flow'rs Or shrubs fuliginously grim. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. ii. iii, Military France is everywhere full of sour inflammatory humour, which exhales itself fuliginously, this way or that. |