单词 | pisculent |
释义 | pisculentadj.ΚΠ 1621 W. Loe Vox Clamantis 2 Most apparant fopperies, most palpable, and pisculent vntruths. 2. Full of fish; (also) that may be fished. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > full of fish fishy1552 fishful1558 pisculent1656 finny1764 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pisculent (pisculentus), full of fishes, or that may be fished. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 104 The Thames is more pisculent, or ful of fish then the Severn. 1834 J. A. St. John Egypt & Mohammed Ali II. ix. 241 There are twenty-nine kinds of fish in the Lake of Geneva, which is infinitely less pisculent than that of Mœris. 1847 Greenock Advertiser 6 July 4/2 Strange, as with being swarms the summer beam, Thy pisculent recesses everywhere With multifarious forms and natures team. 1971 F. V. Morley Long Road West viii. 141 Many were the sea-coasts praised for being pisculent, abounding in fish; I cannot tell which specific promontory Solinus had in mind, when he coined for it a delightful word of highest praise, pisculentissimum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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