单词 | fluctuous |
释义 | fluctuousadj. Obsolete exc. archaic. †(a) Watery. Obsolete. (b) Full of, or resembling waves, literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > [adjective] > full of wawy1412 waving1552 wavous1581 wavy1593 fluctuous1599 billowyc1615 undosous1623 curly1796 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 61/2 An Excellent collyrion for tenebrous and fluctuous Eyes [Ger. für dunckele und flüssige Augen]. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 9 All the fennie Lerna betwixt..being..fluctuous demeans or fee simple. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlviii. sig. Q6v How fluctuous are the salted waues? 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 132 The base of the world's fluctuous lore. Derivatives fluctuˈosity n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > unusually large sea1582 tenth wave1585 sea-mountain1694 mountain wave1696 seventh wave1759 death wave1832 fluctuosity1850 Spanish wave1852 ranger1891 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. II. xvii. 278 Waves might be classed..we ought to have waves, wavelets, billows, fluctuosities, etc., a marble sea, a sea weltering. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < adj.1599 |
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