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lachrymose, a.|ˈlækrɪməʊs|
[ad. L. lacrimōs-us, f. lacrima tear.]
†1. Having the nature of tears; liable to exude in drops. Obs.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 264 As for wax, its begotten of the lachrymose and gummose parts of plants.
b. Bot. Bearing tear-like bodies.
1871M. C. Cooke Handbk. Brit. Fungi I. 113 Agaricus (Hebeloma) fastibilis,..gills broad, edges often lachrymose.
2. Given or ready to shed tears. Of the eyes: Suffused with tears.
1727Bailey vol. II, Lacrymose, full of Tears, sorrowful. 1812Examiner 23 Nov. 737/1 What [is there] in my Lord Eldon but a lachrymose impotence? 1815T. L. Peacock Nightmare Abb. (1817) 94 A very lachrymose and morbid gentleman of some note in the literary world. 1858Thackeray Virgin. lxix. (1878) 565 The eyes that were looking so gentle and lachrymose but now, flame with sudden wrath. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 383 Disease of this nature is sometimes attended with lachrymose depression.
b. Of a tearful character; calculated to provoke tears; mournful.
1822M. A. Kelty Osmond I. 89, I want something now in the way of sentiment; tender, lachrymose. 1858Sat. Rev. VI. 331/2 Lachrymose doggrel. 1884Manch. Examiner 1 Nov. 5/1 Mr. Maciver dealt with the subject in a lachrymose and declamatory fashion.
Hence ˈlachrymosely adv.; lachryˈmosity, the quality or condition of being lachrymose.
1834Campbell Mrs. Siddons II. xiii. 391 As I cannot bear to think of her gloomily, I have not written her life lachrymosely. 1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. i. 3 Those gentlemen who write the most liberally and lachrymosely about the errors of female education. 1880V. Lee 18th C. in Italy vi. 270 The dullness, the vulgarity, the falseness, the lachrymosity of the Sposa Persiana. |