eruptiveadj.
/ɪˈrʌptɪv/ 1. Bursting forth; inclined or accustomed to break out from restraint, or to burst into violent action.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [adjective] > suddenly or violently
shonkand1488
eruptive1646
erumpent1650
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 143 All which is perverted in this eruptive generation. View more context for this quotation
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 101 The sudden Glance [= lightning] Appears far South, eruptive thro' the Cloud.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ii. 65 The eruptive and the aggressive manner in literature.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 117 Hell, eruptive and fuliginous, Sickens to very pallor.
2. Of or pertaining to volcanic eruption; tending to or engaged in eruption; of the nature of or characterized by eruption. Of rocks: Formed or forced up by eruption, showing traces of eruption.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [adjective] > volcanic activity > eruption
erupted1771
erupting1797
eruptive1799
eruptional1858
1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 288 Into these errors Mr. Whitehurst was betrayed by his fondness for the eruptive or plutonic theory.
1819 Ld. Byron Proph. Dante iii. 187 The volcano's fierce eruptive crest.
1859 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) v. 103 Crystalline rock, both eruptive and metamorphic.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 79 Within the crater was found a round and small actively eruptive cone.
1878 S. Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. ii. 262 The eruptive protuberances.
3.
a. Pathology. Attended with or producing eruption or efflorescence.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [adjective]
specked1648
eruptive1790
1790 W. Fordyce A Let. conc. Muriatic Acid 1 The striking effects produced by the spirit of sea-salt in all our putrid diseases..I mean the Eruptive fevers.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France in Wks. (1842) II. 279 It is in the nature of these eruptive diseases in the state to sink in by fits, and re-appear.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 207/2 Antimony is also used in some eruptive or exanthematous fevers.
1868 C. M. Yonge Cameos xc, in Monthly Packet Sept. 234 A serious attack of illness of an eruptive kind.
b. transferred (humorous.)
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1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxvi. 98 Thomas wears a page's costume of eruptive buttons.
Derivatives
eˈruptively adv. in an eruptive manner.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [adverb] > eruption
eruptively1869
1869 Daily News 1 July The candlesticks all over knobs and excrescences as if eruptively affected.
eˈruptiveness n. the quality of being eruptive.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [noun] > volcanic activity > eruption > quality
eruptivity1882
eruptiveness1885
1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways I. i. 19 They create by stoppage a volcano, and are amazed at its eruptiveness.
erupˈtivity n. = eruptiveness n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [noun] > volcanic activity > eruption > quality
eruptivity1882
eruptiveness1885
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iv. vii. 537 They possess likewise various values as marks of eruptivity.
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