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vaporous, a.|ˈveɪpərəs|
Also 6 vaporouse, vaperous, 7 vap'rous, 9 vaprous; 7–9 vapourous.
[f. L. vapōr-us or ad. L. vapōrōs-us, f. vapor vapour n. Cf. F. vaporeux, It., Sp., Pg. vaporoso.]
†1. Of a bath: Consisting or composed of vapour. Obs. (Cf. vapour-bath.)
1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters P iij, Also Escume made of this herbe used in vaperous bathes dystroyeth age. 1631E. Jorden Nat. Bathes i. (1669) 2 These kind of watry and vaporous Bathes have been in use from all antiquity. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Balneum Vaporosum, the Vapourous Bath, is when the Vessel that contains the Matter..is heated by the Vapours, or Steams that arise from the hot or boiling Water.
2. Emitting or exhaling vapour; † spec. of food in the stomach.
1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1553) B ij b, The pacyente oughte..to forbeare all vaporous meates, as garlyke, onyons [etc.]. 1584Cogan Haven Health ccxli. (1636) 269 Such things as bee most vaporous do most dispose us to sleepe. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme vi. xxii. 799 The wine is a claret,..of a thinne substance, not fuming or being vaporous. 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 181, I aduise all such..to sup..on rosted meats, because they are lesse vaporous. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 392 To settle their Meat to the Bottom of their Stomach, that it may prove less vaporous to the Head. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 20 Scorbutic Ale..restraineth the Ebullition..of the Vapourous Blood. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments v. iv. (1735) 139 Aliment too vapourous or perspirable, will subject it to the Inconveniencies of too strong a Perspiration.
†b. Of the eyes: Moist with tears. Obs.—1
1583B. Melbancke Philotimus O iv b, He..at last met by chaunce with a sorcerer, to whom deploring with vaporous eyes his burdenous taske [printed burdurus taste] (etc.).
3. Filled with, thick or dim with, vapour; foggy, misty.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 771 O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night,..Muster thy mists to meete the Easterne light. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 998 Considering that mists, fogs and clouds are no congealations, but onely gatherings and thickenings of a moist and vapourous aire. 1620Venner Via Recta Introd. 5 There the aire is..seldome infected with vaporous blasts. 1665Phil. Trans. I. 67 Through the Gross and Vaporous Air near the Earth. 1709T. Robinson Nat. Hist. Westmoreld. ii. 16 The magnetick Attraction of this ætherial Spirit of Cold, which governs the humid and vaporous Atmosphere. 1818Shelley Euganean Hills 92 The waveless plain of Lombardy, Bounded by the vaporous air. a1864Hawthorne Mother Rigby's Pipe i, The small cottage became all vaporous. 1869J. Phillips Vesuv. iv. 124 The outline of the cone was plain against the illuminated vaporous atmosphere.
fig.1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 334 [The Jesuits'] religious pietie in shew, is but a rainebow cloude, of atheall policie in action, drawne vp in vaporous dewes of cold congealed deuotions. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. ii. (1821) 414 To rise above that vaporous sphere of sensual and earthly pleasures, which darken the mind.
b. Covered or obscured with vapour.
a1687Petty Pol. Arith. i. (1690) 12 Holland is a Level Country,..and by its being moist and vaporous, there is always wind stirring over it. 1818Keats Endym. ii. 19 Wide sea,..Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be Upon thy vaporous bosom! 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 115 The lower cloud field—itself an empire of vaporous hills. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche April x, The tripod shook, and o'er the vaporous well The chanting Pythoness gave oracle.
4. Having the form, nature, or consistency of vapour. (Common in 19th cent.)
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xxv. 196 Places in th' earth, whose vertue is to draw vaporous matter, and to convert it into water. 1651H. More Enthus. Tri. (1656) 234 How can darknesse be called a Masse? etc. No it cannot. Nor a thin vaporous matter neither. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. §36. 784 Its being in Hades [is] nothing but its presiding over that Idol or enlivened vaporous Body. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 136 The virus lunare, the vaporous drops that hang in any region of infection. [Cf. Shakes. Macb. iii. v. 24.] 1818Accum Chem. Tests 97 Formed from the vaporous muriatic acid. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. iv. 119 Caused in some way by the vapourous fumes diffused in its air. 1893Sir R. Ball Story of Sun 284 The photosphere must be composed of a shell of cloudy or vaporous material.
fig.1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy 50 The westering sun That still on plains beyond streams vaporous gold.
†b. In older medical use applied to supposed emanations from internal organs or from substances within the body. Obs.
1547Boorde Brev. Health §119 A vaporous humour or fumosytie rising..from the stomake. c1550H. Lloyd Treas. Health C 7 From the whych ryse vaporouse spirites and move disordinatly about the brayne. 1620Venner Via Recta (1650) 49 It doth nothing lesse then offend the braine..with vaporous fumes. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 71 These vaporous steams arising from the blood.
c. fig. Of ideas, feelings, etc.: Fanciful, idle, unsubstantial, vain.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. viii. §3 So whosoever shall entertain high and vaporous imaginations, instead of a..sober inquiry of truth, shall beget hopes and beliefs of strange and impossible shapes. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 456 O foolish pride, O suppressing ambition! and vaporous curiosity! 1796Coleridge Sybil. Leaves, Ode Departing Year ix, The vaporous passions that bedim God's Image, sister of the Seraphim. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb iv. i. 321 The vaporous exultation not to be confined! 1874Motley John of Barneveld II. xiv. 119 But his arguments were vaporous enough and made little impression. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. ii. xvi, But such vaporous conjecture passed away as quickly as it came.
d. Of fabrics or garments: Gauzy, filmy.
1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. III. xvi. 235 The most fragile and vaporous bonnets were to be seen in the Bois de Boulogne. 1881H. James Portr. Lady xlii, She..kept no less anxious an eye upon her vaporous skirts. 1896Pall Mall G. 11 Mar. 4/2 Full sleeves of vaporous Indian muslin.
5. Of persons or minds: Inclined to be fanciful, vague, or frothy, in ideas or discourse.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. 9 Let him but read the fable of Ixion, and it will hold him from being vaporous or imaginatiue. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxviii, B ―, the mouth-piece of the debating clubs, noisy, vaporous, and democratic. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. v. ii, Shame on my vaporous brain!
6. Of state or condition: Characteristic of vapour.
1661Origen's Opinions in Phœnix (1721) I. 53 We then find that they which steam'd forth in a vaporous Rarity..do at last fall down again in a watery Consistence. 1782Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 26 The dephlogisticated marine acid, in a vapourous state, certainly acts upon it. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 7 The elevated temperature it demands to be converted into the vaporous state. 1863Tyndall Heat iii. §60 (1870) 61 We have matter in the vaporous or gaseous form.
Hence ˈvaporously adv.; ˈvaporousness.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme vi. xxii. 777 The most..common annoiance that the vaporousnes of the wine doth cause, is drunkennes. Ibid. 781 By his vaporousnes it filleth the braine. 1757T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. III. 416 The warmth and vaporousness of the air at the bottom of the well. 1877Academy 21 April 352 The whole thing is toned down to a pale husky vaporousness of surface. 1887Lowell Democracy, etc. 143 The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation. |