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† odiferant, odiferous
shortened forms of odoriferant, -ferous.
14..in Ashm. Theat. Chem. (1652) 220 Hys smel; That ben so swete and so odeferus. a1529Skelton Bk. 3 Foles Envye, I thought for to have taken abyaunce with an odyfferaunt flowre. 1542Boorde Dyetary iv. (1870) 237 That there be no fylth in them, but good & odyferous sauours. 1552Huloet, Odiferous, loke in odoriferous, for the laste is the better phrase. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 69 Working upon humane ordure and by long preparation rendring it odiferous. 1851V. Lush Jrnl. 8 Aug. (1971) 83 It looked marvellously strange to see so rough a looking man taking up bottle after bottle with all the air of a connoisseur, and at last after much deliberation selecting those which seemed to his olfactory nerves the most odiferous. 1977Fanfare (Toronto) 6 July 3/1 German barbers worked busily for years on odiferous brews to suppress the dangerous shade. |