lachrymousadj.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos viii. sig. Cv Lacrymous and playnynge sorowes.

1510 R. Copland tr. Kynge Appolyn of Thyre sig. G.iii^v Fayre syster haue ye holpen the poore dyscomforted for to leue and cease of his sorowes and lachrymous lamentacyons.

1825 R. Montgomery Poet. Trifles 19 That weeps o'er such lachrymous distractions.

1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Fasti ii. 399 Bidding performed by servants lachrymous [L. iussa recusantes peragunt lacrimosa ministri].

1918 Internat. Mil. Digest Jan. 16/2 The use of asphyxiating and lacrimous gases has not been abandoned.

1941 Scribner's Commentator May 11/1 A mournful assemblage of tearful lions, weeping tigers, and other lacrimous fauna.

1966 P. Larkin Let. 5 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 382 Wolfenden..finished up with a lachrymous panegyric on the Vice Chancellor.

2003 M. P. Sinha W. B. Yeats v. 105 If the poem were written in the heroic couplet or even in blank verse, the movement would be slow, heavy and lachrymous.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 285 An excellent remedie against any lachrimous or weeping vlcers.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Eee Besides the true Pine there are many wild ones, as the three sorts of pitch Trees that delight in maritimous places, and some others that grow spontaneously in Rocky and montanous places, all of them as also the Firre-Tree and Larinx-Tree are Lachrimous, and effuse either spontaneously or by vulneration.