diluvianadj.
/dɪˈl(j)uːvɪən/ Of or pertaining to a deluge; esp. of the Noachian Flood.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [adjective] > flooding or overflowing
delavya1400
floating1578
swimmingc1595
overfloten1601
gulf-eating?1611
overflowing1611
overrunning1611
tideful1622
inundant1629
diluvial1656
exuberant1678
diluviana1684
overflown1818
deluging1824
deluginous1835
insurgent1849
flooding1850
overstreaming1860
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1655 (1955) III. 158 From the Calculation of coincidence with the Diluvian period.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser Prel. 3 Of the Diluvian Ark, mentioned Gen. 6.
1708 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth (ed. 2) ii. 187 The Diluvian matter from the Comets Atmosphere contained in it a great quantity of..stony particles.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) I. i. 41 Remains which fossilists distinguish by the title of diluvian.
1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 87 A shock so violent and universal as that which pervaded the globe during the diluvian revolution.
1823 W. Buckland Reliq. Diluvianæ 39 Scattered by the violence of the diluvian waters.
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xxxii. 235 On the surface of uplands undulating like diluvian billows fixed into stone in the midst of their stormy swell.
Derivatives
diˈluvianism n. a theory which attributes certain phenomena to a universal deluge.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > theory of formation of earth > [noun] > flood or aqueous
diluvianism1816
Neptunianism1830
Neptunism1842
Wernerianism1892
1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry I. 272 The cosmogony of the Virginians seems also to be mingled with diluvianism.
1885 Whitney in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 765/2 Linguistic philology has been..created..out of the crude observations and wild deductions of earlier times, as truly as chemistry out of alchemy, or geology out of diluvianism.
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