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sabulous, a.|ˈsæbjʊləs|
[ad. L. sabulōs-us, f. sabul-um sand: see -ous.]
Sandy; consisting of or abounding in sand; arenaceous.
1632Lithgow Trav. (1906) 226 The austiere conspicuosity of the sabulous and stony Desarts. 1670R. Wittie in Phil. Trans. V. 1076 Water..strained from all sabulous mixture. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §193 The quantity and species of sabulous matter that entered into the texture of the lime⁓stone. 1822G. Woodley Scilly Isl. ii. iii. 289 This part of the Island..appears rather to have gained from the sea by these sabulous accumulations. 1881Academy 1 Oct. 252 The author [E. W. White] is terribly fond of long words. To him..plains are sabulous..parrots are psittacs.
b. Med. Applied to a granular secretion, esp. in the urinary organs.
1670W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 137 The one Water layes a stony Foundation for a Fabrick of Sabulous diseases. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 170/2 It..dissolves any tartarous or sabulous Coagulation in the Reins or Ureters. 1836–41Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 1389 Sabulous depositions in the urine are of various characters. 1881Trans. Obstetric Soc. Lond. XXVII. 39 Sabulous matter, mixed with mucus.
c. Anat., applied to the acervulus cerebri, or gritty substance of the pineal body of the brain (Cent. Dict. 1891).
Hence ˈsabulousness, the state or quality of being sabulous.
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