mellifluousadj.

Brit.

/mᵻˈlɪflʊəs/, U.S.

/məˈlɪfləwəs/

Forms: late Middle English mellyfluose, late Middle English mellyfluous, late Middle English– mellifluous, 1500s mellyfluos, 1500s mellyfluus, 1600s melliflous; Scottish pre-1700 mellifluus, pre-1700 1700s– mellifluous.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin mellifluus , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin mellifluus sweet as honey, flowing with honey (late 4th cent.; < classical Latin mell- , mel honey (see mell n.²) + -fluus < fluere to flow: see fluent adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare ancient Greek μελίρρυτος flowing with honey. Compare earlier melliflue adj.Post-classical Latin mellifluus is used to designate St Bernard from at least the mid 14th cent.; with the phrase the mellifluous doctor (see quot. 1483 at sense 2b) compare post-classical Latin mellifluus doctor (1535 or earlier).

1. Flowing with, exuding, or containing honey or a honey-like substance; of the nature of or resembling honey; sweetened with or as with honey. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > like, as, or with honey

melcheOE

honey-sweetOE

honey?c1225

honily?c1425

mellifluec1429

mellifluous?a1475

honeyed1559

mellisha1577

honeysome1593

melled1606

honeyish1657

honeyly1864

the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [adjective] > containing honey

honeyed?c1400

mellifluec1429

mellifluous?a1475

mellifluate1508

honey-dewed1596

honeyful1610

melliferous1656

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 101 (MED) For trees..and oþer yerbes groenge there distille encense and gumme ȝiffenge mellifluous redolence.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. bvij/1 By the sauour of tho mellyfluous floures alle the cytee was puryfyed.

1536 Prymer Salysbery Use (STC 15992) f. cxlvi^v In the mouth hony so mellyfluus.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 18 Like torrents of mellifluous snow infore th' Sun, His sacred Hippocrene gins to runne.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 919 The increase of Bees is more in regard of..the plenty of mellifluous dews.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 239 Twelve large vessels of unmingled wine, Mellifluous, undecaying, and divine.

1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer x. 242 Its [sc. the hummingbird's] bill is as long and as sharp as a coarse sewing needle; like the bee, nature has taught it to find out in the calix of flowers and blossoms, those mellifluous particles that serve it for sufficient food.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Dr. Birch 41 And no one lacked, neither of raspberry open-tarts, nor of mellifluous bull's-eyes.

1996 Economist 20 July (Review Suppl.) 11/1 A visitor to Germany..is bound to notice the presence, in almost every small town, of a local Brauerei whose mellifluous product is available in the neighbouring inns.

a. figurative. Of speech, words, music, etc.: sweet, honeyed; pleasant-sounding, flowing, musical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] > honeyed, mellifluous, or luscious

honeyfula1400

honeyed1435

mellifluous?a1475

sugarc1530

sweetful1589

sugary1591

honeysome1593

sweet-seasoned1609

sugar-candied1623

creamya1640

luscious1651

saccharine1841

mouth-watering1847

sugar-candyish1852

goluptious1856

yummy1899

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > having pleasing speech or eloquent > pleasing (of speech)

well-spoken?a1400

sweetc1405

honeyc1450

mellifluous?a1475

mellifluate1508

well-spoken1539

mellifluent1601

suaviloquent1656

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > mellifluous

sugaredc1440

mellifluous?a1475

sugratife1509

sugurat?a1513

sugary1591

silver1594

silken1598

mellfluvious1600

mellifluent1601

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. i. 3 (MED) The nowble wryters of artes..ar to be enhaunsede and exaltede..as makenge a commixtion of a thynge profitable with a swetenesse mellifluous.

?c1500 Digby Plays 109 O Iesu! þi mellyfluos name Mott be worcheppyd with reverens!

?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes 59 Such mellifluous words and sugred sentences proceeded out of his mouth that they were amazed.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 52 A mellifluous voyce, as I am true knight.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 274 Wisest of men; from whose mouth issu'd forth Mellifluous streams.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 31 Thousands..warble.., their Modulations mix Mellifluous.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 27 A work..written in a very mellifluous style.

1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 242 Its note is not so mellifluous and varied as that of the song thrush.

1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. iv. 167 The not very mellifluous title of Craimgepolder.

1919 W. Lewis Caliph's Design ii. ii. 38 Marinetti (with his Caruso tenor instincts of inflation, and mellifluous self-aggrandisement).

1971 Leader (Durban) 7 May 8/4 He wrote in Malayalam, which is the mellifluous, if impossibly difficult language of Kerala.

2000 Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 24/1 He..delivers Wilde's beautiful love letter to Lord Alfred Douglas..with a mellifluous warmth of feeling.

b. Of a speaker, writer, etc.: sweet-sounding; fluent; (later also) smoothly eloquent, charmingly persuasive.

ΚΠ

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 264 b/1 Saynt Bernard the mellifluous doctor.

1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia ii. 281 b Mellifluous and hony-tongued Shakespeare.

1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving iv. i. 61 All the habitable circumference of this muddy messy earthy globe could not haue affoorded..vnto me so mellifluous an Indoctrinator.

1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iv. 206 Mellifluous Shake-speare, whose inchanting Quill Commanded Mirth or Passion.

c1708 A. Henley in J. Swift Lett. (1766) I. 22 As that mellifluous ornament of Italy, Franciscus Petrarcha, sweetly has it.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. ii. 283 Most mellifluous yet most impetuous of public speakers.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xi. 373 The most mellifluous of all erotic songsters.

1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xxxviii. 380 What distinguished him from his contemporary brother ruffians, like Bully Hayes or the mellifluous Pease..was the arrogant temper of his misdeeds.

1943 M. Beerbohm Lytton Strachey 22 That agile and mellifluous quodlibetarian, Dr. Joad.

1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 38/2 Mulroney..was a consummate pro, a mellifluous fibber with the built-in advantage of never once being inhibited by shame.

Derivatives

meˈllifluously adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adverb] > eloquently or pleasingly

renablyc1330

disertly1447

articulately1531

ore rotundo1720

mellifluously1768

soapily1976

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adverb] > mellifluously

harmonically1589

mellifluously1768

1768 J. Hall-Stevenson New Fable of Bees i, in Makarony Fables 41 Are not our brothers scorn'd and slighted, Except our brethren from the Tweed, With us mellifluously united?

1812 Examiner 30 Nov. 763/2 The versification of Pope is mellifluously flowing.

1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 136 The little Elise, then just nine..set herself deliberately to chatter to me mellifluously for an hour and a half.

1990 Ld. Hailsham Sparrow's Flight viii. 66 An old lecturer whose lectures I attended was still lecturing mellifluously on ‘The Absolute’ when I read Greats in 1929 and 1930.

meˈllifluousness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > [noun] > quality of being mellifluous

mellifluousness1821

1821 New Monthly Mag. 3 445/1 A head by Corregio..abounding in that feminine loveliness and blending mellifluousness of colour and chiaro oscuro, which [etc.].

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxxvi. 451 ‘You should read Spanish,’ he said, ‘It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian..but it has grandeur.’

1987 Sunday Times 4 Oct. 33/2 Kinnock, despite his mellifluousness, is a remarkably hard-fisted, even authoritarian, party leader.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mellifluous
释义	mellifluousadj. Brit. /mᵻˈlɪflʊəs/, U.S. /məˈlɪfləwəs/ Forms: late Middle English mellyfluose, late Middle English mellyfluous, late Middle English– mellifluous, 1500s mellyfluos, 1500s mellyfluus, 1600s melliflous; Scottish pre-1700 mellifluus, pre-1700 1700s– mellifluous. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin mellifluus , -ous suffix. Etymology: < post-classical Latin mellifluus sweet as honey, flowing with honey (late 4th cent.; < classical Latin mell- , mel honey (see mell n.²) + -fluus < fluere to flow: see fluent adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare ancient Greek μελίρρυτος flowing with honey. Compare earlier melliflue adj.Post-classical Latin mellifluus is used to designate St Bernard from at least the mid 14th cent.; with the phrase the mellifluous doctor (see quot. 1483 at sense 2b) compare post-classical Latin mellifluus doctor (1535 or earlier). 1. Flowing with, exuding, or containing honey or a honey-like substance; of the nature of or resembling honey; sweetened with or as with honey. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > like, as, or with honey melcheOE honey-sweetOE honey?c1225 honily?c1425 mellifluec1429 mellifluous?a1475 honeyed1559 mellisha1577 honeysome1593 melled1606 honeyish1657 honeyly1864 the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [adjective] > containing honey honeyed?c1400 mellifluec1429 mellifluous?a1475 mellifluate1508 honey-dewed1596 honeyful1610 melliferous1656 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 101 (MED) For trees..and oþer yerbes groenge there distille encense and gumme ȝiffenge mellifluous redolence. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. bvij/1 By the sauour of tho mellyfluous floures alle the cytee was puryfyed. 1536 Prymer Salysbery Use (STC 15992) f. cxlvi^v In the mouth hony so mellyfluus. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 18 Like torrents of mellifluous snow infore th' Sun, His sacred Hippocrene gins to runne. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 919 The increase of Bees is more in regard of..the plenty of mellifluous dews. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 239 Twelve large vessels of unmingled wine, Mellifluous, undecaying, and divine. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer x. 242 Its [sc. the hummingbird's] bill is as long and as sharp as a coarse sewing needle; like the bee, nature has taught it to find out in the calix of flowers and blossoms, those mellifluous particles that serve it for sufficient food. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Dr. Birch 41 And no one lacked, neither of raspberry open-tarts, nor of mellifluous bull's-eyes. 1996 Economist 20 July (Review Suppl.) 11/1 A visitor to Germany..is bound to notice the presence, in almost every small town, of a local Brauerei whose mellifluous product is available in the neighbouring inns. 2. a. figurative. Of speech, words, music, etc.: sweet, honeyed; pleasant-sounding, flowing, musical. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] > honeyed, mellifluous, or luscious honeyfula1400 honeyed1435 mellifluous?a1475 sugarc1530 sweetful1589 sugary1591 honeysome1593 sweet-seasoned1609 sugar-candied1623 creamya1640 luscious1651 saccharine1841 mouth-watering1847 sugar-candyish1852 goluptious1856 yummy1899 the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > having pleasing speech or eloquent > pleasing (of speech) well-spoken?a1400 sweetc1405 honeyc1450 mellifluous?a1475 mellifluate1508 well-spoken1539 mellifluent1601 suaviloquent1656 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > mellifluous sugaredc1440 mellifluous?a1475 sugratife1509 sugurat?a1513 sugary1591 silver1594 silken1598 mellfluvious1600 mellifluent1601 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. i. 3 (MED) The nowble wryters of artes..ar to be enhaunsede and exaltede..as makenge a commixtion of a thynge profitable with a swetenesse mellifluous. ?c1500 Digby Plays 109 O Iesu! þi mellyfluos name Mott be worcheppyd with reverens! ?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes 59 Such mellifluous words and sugred sentences proceeded out of his mouth that they were amazed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 52 A mellifluous voyce, as I am true knight. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 274 Wisest of men; from whose mouth issu'd forth Mellifluous streams. View more context for this quotation 1728 J. Thomson Spring 31 Thousands..warble.., their Modulations mix Mellifluous. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 27 A work..written in a very mellifluous style. 1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 242 Its note is not so mellifluous and varied as that of the song thrush. 1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. iv. 167 The not very mellifluous title of Craimgepolder. 1919 W. Lewis Caliph's Design ii. ii. 38 Marinetti (with his Caruso tenor instincts of inflation, and mellifluous self-aggrandisement). 1971 Leader (Durban) 7 May 8/4 He wrote in Malayalam, which is the mellifluous, if impossibly difficult language of Kerala. 2000 Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 24/1 He..delivers Wilde's beautiful love letter to Lord Alfred Douglas..with a mellifluous warmth of feeling. b. Of a speaker, writer, etc.: sweet-sounding; fluent; (later also) smoothly eloquent, charmingly persuasive. ΚΠ 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 264 b/1 Saynt Bernard the mellifluous doctor. 1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia ii. 281 b Mellifluous and hony-tongued Shakespeare. 1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving iv. i. 61 All the habitable circumference of this muddy messy earthy globe could not haue affoorded..vnto me so mellifluous an Indoctrinator. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iv. 206 Mellifluous Shake-speare, whose inchanting Quill Commanded Mirth or Passion. c1708 A. Henley in J. Swift Lett. (1766) I. 22 As that mellifluous ornament of Italy, Franciscus Petrarcha, sweetly has it. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. ii. 283 Most mellifluous yet most impetuous of public speakers. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xi. 373 The most mellifluous of all erotic songsters. 1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xxxviii. 380 What distinguished him from his contemporary brother ruffians, like Bully Hayes or the mellifluous Pease..was the arrogant temper of his misdeeds. 1943 M. Beerbohm Lytton Strachey 22 That agile and mellifluous quodlibetarian, Dr. Joad. 1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 38/2 Mulroney..was a consummate pro, a mellifluous fibber with the built-in advantage of never once being inhibited by shame. Derivatives meˈllifluously adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adverb] > eloquently or pleasingly renablyc1330 disertly1447 articulately1531 ore rotundo1720 mellifluously1768 soapily1976 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adverb] > mellifluously harmonically1589 mellifluously1768 1768 J. Hall-Stevenson New Fable of Bees i, in Makarony Fables 41 Are not our brothers scorn'd and slighted, Except our brethren from the Tweed, With us mellifluously united? 1812 Examiner 30 Nov. 763/2 The versification of Pope is mellifluously flowing. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 136 The little Elise, then just nine..set herself deliberately to chatter to me mellifluously for an hour and a half. 1990 Ld. Hailsham Sparrow's Flight viii. 66 An old lecturer whose lectures I attended was still lecturing mellifluously on ‘The Absolute’ when I read Greats in 1929 and 1930. meˈllifluousness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > [noun] > quality of being mellifluous mellifluousness1821 1821 New Monthly Mag. 3 445/1 A head by Corregio..abounding in that feminine loveliness and blending mellifluousness of colour and chiaro oscuro, which [etc.]. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxxvi. 451 ‘You should read Spanish,’ he said, ‘It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian..but it has grandeur.’ 1987 Sunday Times 4 Oct. 33/2 Kinnock, despite his mellifluousness, is a remarkably hard-fisted, even authoritarian, party leader. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1475
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