| 单词 | pluvian jove |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPluvian Jove Rain-giving, rain-bringing; rainy. In early use chiefly literary in Pluvian Jove, Pluvian Jupiter. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > causing, bringing, or connected with rain rainyc1384 plungy?a1425 wetc1425 rainbred1582 showery1594 pluvian1799 rainful1877 rain-making1889 1799 tr. Tibullus in Earl of Sandwich Voy. Mediterranean 397 The land thou feedest asks no falling rain, Nor sues to Pluvian Jove [L. pluvio Iovi] the parched plain. 1846 H. Smith Poet. Wks. II. 137 For Pluvian Jupiter for ever wings His clouds above them. 1851 R. F. Burton Goa 368 Irritated by the pertinacious viciousness of Pluvian Jove, we ride along the slippery road which bounds the East confines of the lake. 1890 Overland Monthly Dec. 614/1 It is practically a mountain of gold, down whose sides the pluvian torrents wash a golden stream. 1931 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 7 Mar. 1/5 Expectations were that April would prove more faithful to its Pluvian traditions than in 1930. 1981 A. Sen Poverty & Famines (1982) viii. 114 It has been argued that the 1968–69 rains were more or less normal; they only appeared low by comparison with the pluvian 1960s. < as lemmas |
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