sulphureoussulfureousadj.
1. † c. Old Pathol. Consisting of ‘sulphur’ as one of the principles of matter; (of disease) arising from ‘sulphurous’ matter.
a. Of or pertaining to sulphur; full of, containing, or consisting of sulphur.In the first two quots. the reference is to sulphur n. 2.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > sulphur or vitriol
sulphurous1530
sulphureous1626
vitriolic1670
sulphuric1815
sulphuriferous1830
the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [adjective]
brimstony1382
sulphurous1530
brimstonish1562
sulphureous1626
hepatic1651
sulphurine1731
1626 Bacon Sylva Sylvarum §354 There bee two Great Families of Things..Sulphureous and Mercuriall.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 335 So doth fire cleanse and purifie bodies, because it consumes the sulphureous parts, which before did make them foule. View more context for this quotation
a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 60 A very sulphureous Soil.
1731 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 270 The Millypedes or Wood-lice have a sulphureous spirit in them wch I have known do wonders on weak constitutions.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 76 Any sulphureous substance mixed with iron, produces a very great heat, by the admission of water.
1807 Byron Elegy Newstead Abbey xv, War's dread machines..dart destruction in sulphureous showers.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 217 Where the air is heated by smoke-flues or by fermenting stable dung, it may be charged with sulphureous or other noxious gases.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iv. xxiv. 386 The sulphureous rain [fire and brimstone] destroyed them all!
b. Of sulphur springs or waters.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [adjective] > sulphurous (of springs)
sulphureous1608
sulphurous1815
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > sulphur or vitriol > of waters or springs
sulphureous1608
sulphurous1815
the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [adjective] > containing, consisting of, or impregnated with > of sulphur springs
sulphureous1608
sulphurous1815
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 34 Those sulphureous Bathes which were neere vnto Cameriacum.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 211 Neere the Towne is a sulphurous fountaine which continualy boiles.
1789 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (rev. ed.) I. 97 The Harrowgate, or any other sulphureous water will have a good effect.
1792 A. Young Trav. France 25 The patients lie up to their chins in hot sulphureous water.
1835 Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 479/1 Sulphureous mineral waters have been so named from the sulphuretted hydrogen gas with which they are impregnated.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 61/1 Natural sulphureous waters, especially hot springs, readily deposit sulphur.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disordered or out of sorts > of humours
humoral?a1425
humorous?a1425
cacochymic?1541
burnt1578
cacochymical1606
cacochyme1614
ill-tempereda1616
ebullient1620
sulphureous1625
cacochymious1676
dyscratic1684
dyscrasial1874
dyscrasic1874
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > other characteristics
hoteOE
redeOE
foulOE
elvishc1386
dryc1400
whitec1450
Naples1507
shaking1528
cold1569
exquisite1583
unpure1583
waterish1583
wandering1585
legitimate1615
sulphureous1625
tetrous1637
cagastrical1662
medical1676
ambulatory1684
ebullient1684
frantic1709
animated1721
progressive1736
cagastric1753
vegetative1803
left-handed1804
specific1804
subacute1811
animate1816
gregarious1822
vernal1822
ambilateral1824
subchronic1831
regressive1845
nummular1866
postoperative1872
ambulant1873
non-surgical1888
progredient1891
spodogenous1897
spodogenic19..
non-invasive1932
early-onset1951
adult-onset1957
non-specific1964
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. x. 120 Such diseases as haue their originall from this Sulphureous and salt matter.
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. x. 120 Some sulphureous, Mercuriall, or saltish and tartareous disease.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xii. 439/2 Cholagoga, medicines that purge Sulphureous and Bilious humours.
1714 J. Purcell Treat. Cholick 141 The Curative Indications in this Cause are, to divide and break asunder the Sulphureous Filaments, and ill digested Particles of the Aliments.
2.
a. Derived or emanating from sulphur; hence, having the qualities associated with (burning) sulphur; applied chiefly to cloud, smoke, odour.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > other spec.
sulphureousa1552
sulphured1605
sulphurous1606
sulphury1614
mephitic1623
nidorulent1634
empyreumatic1651
nidorous1651
Stymphalian1653
hircine1656
nitrosulphureous1656
empyreumatical1661
nitro-sulphurious1693
mephitical1704
nidorose1707
nitro-sulphurous1717
empyreumatized1829
onionized1830
Stymphalid1831
hircinous1866
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 31 The Water of the Baynes..having sumwhat a sulphureus and sumwhat a pleasant savor.
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (1904) I. 360 A sulphureous stinking smoak.
a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 334 Gaping..c<h>asm's, out of which issu'd..sulphurous blasts & Smake.
1700 Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 522 Ætna vomiting sulphuerous Fire.
1725 W. Broome in Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 492 Sulphureous odors rose, and smould'ring smoke.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 56 The flash is sudden, the noise is loud, a sulphureous smell ensues.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 201 No sulphureous or other disagreeable effluvium is ever given out by hot-water pipes when they become leaky, as is the case with flues when they are not air-tight.
1866 J. F. W. Herschel Familiar Lect. Sci. Subj. 22 The dense sulphureous vapour that swept down from the mountain.
b. Thundery. rare. (Cf. sulphurous adj. 2b.)
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adjective]
cloudy1626
sulphureous1751
the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry
grim971
aweddeOE
woodlyc1000
anburstc1275
woodc1275
aburstc1300
eagerc1325
brotheful1330
brothely1330
furiousc1374
wroth as (the) wind1377
throc1380
fella1382
wrothlya1400
grindelc1400
raginga1425
furibund1490
bremit1535
outraging1567
fulminant?1578
wood-like1578
horn-mad1579
snuff1582
woodful1582
maddeda1586
rageful1585
furibundal1593
gary1609
fierce1611
wild1653
infuriate1667
hopping mad1675
maddened1735
sulphureous1751
savage1789
infuriated1796
bouncing mad1834
frenzy1859
furyinga1861
ropeable1870
furied1878
fulminous1886
livid1888
fit to be tied1894
hopping1894
fighting mad1896
tamping mad1946
up the wall1951
ravers1967
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [adjective]
sulphury?1611
sulphurousa1616
fulmineous1624
fulminous1635
sulphureous1751
1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 58 King William in hopes to dispel this sulphureous body of clouds [etc.].
3. allusively and fig.† a. Hellish, satanic. Obs.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] > relating to sulphur or fire of hell
sulphurious1560
sulphur1594
sulphureala1604
sulphurous1604
sulphurated1609
sulphury1630
sulphureous1644
1624 T. Taylor 2 Serm. ii. 24 We..remember not that they digged a sulphureous pit in 1605, wide enough to swallow three whole kingdomes.]
1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 202 The sulphureous and sanguineous or bloody order and fraternity of Romish Jesuites.
b. Full of the ‘sulphur’ of hell.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style
judicial1532
heroic1590
judiciary1603
wild1645
heroi-comic1708
mock-heroic1708
heroi-comical1712
flebilea1734
prosai-comi-epic1749
lusory1779
sulphureous1791
harlequinic1804
mock-heroical1825
newspaperish1825
marmoreal1892
kailyard1895
freestyle1906
paperback1921
nouny1926
Time-ese1947
nounal1952
kitchen sink1959
effectist1961
writerly1974
dirty realist1984
1791 J. Hampson Mem. J. Wesley II. 69 Hell and damnation has been denounced..in a stile so horribly sulphureous, that [etc.].
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Apr. 1 They would be under the absolute sway of the most sulphureous preacher of the neighbourhood.
4. Sulphur-coloured; sulphur-yellow. Also, of the bluish colour of the flame with which sulphur burns.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow
gull13..
flaxen?1523
palew1547
straw-coloured1585
branlie1589
straw colour1589
flaxy1634
festucine1646
sulphureous1656
flaxenish1661
butter colour1665
strawy1668
straw-yellow1794
bombycinous1796
sulphur-coloured1811
sherry-yellow1813
sulphur-yellow1816
bombasic1825
straw1842
wax-coloured1842
stramineous1845
maize-coloured1852
daffodil1855
daw1856
flax1873
sherry-coloured1875
mastic1890
sulpho-chromic1895
ochroid1897
wheat-coloured1898
sulphurous1899
sulphury1900
tea rose1900
straw-pale1922
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [adjective] > of the nature of or resembling flame > of bluish colour
bluea1450
sulphury1614
sulphureous1821
sulphurous1837
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sulphureous,..of the colour of Sulphur or Brimston.
1794 A. Radcliffe Mysteries of Udolpho III. iv. 92 The accumulating clouds..assumed a red sulphureous tinge, that foretold a violent storm.
1796 R. Southey Donica xxvi, The hallow'd tapers dimly stream'd A pale sulphureous light.
1821 J. Baillie Ghost Fadon in Metrical Legends xxix, Till the flame..burn'd Of clear sulphureous blue.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 279 Sulphureous (Sulphureus). Yellow with a tint of green.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xii. 258 The evening sun imparts a sulphureous hue.
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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum (at cited word), After the Spirit and Oil of Vitriol are in distillation of that Mineral, driven out by a most Violent Fire..into the Receiver. They commonly Rectifie the Matter in a Glass Body; and the first Spirit that rises then with a very gentle degree of Fire, is called the Sulphureous Spirit of Vitriol.
1789 J. Keir First Pt. Dict. Chem. 6/2 The sulphureous acid, and the marine dephlogisticated acid destroy vegetable colours, and change them to white.
1789 R. Kerr tr. Lavoisier Elements Chem. 222 (note) , The only one of these salts known to the old chemists was the sulphite of potash, under the name of Stahl's sulphureous salt.
1794 G. Pearson tr. Table Chem. Nomencl. 4 The word Sulfite denotes compounds consisting of the Sulphureous Acid and each of the above twenty-six different kinds of substances.
1794 G. Pearson tr. Table Chem. Nomencl. 30 Sulphur, which by combining with Oxygen and Caloric produces sulphureous Acid Gaz.
1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Kilsyth, Springs, one of which is impregnated with sulphureous hydrogen gaz.
1812 H. Davy Chem. Philos. in Wks. (1840) IV. 23 He [sc. Stahl] discovered..the nature of sulphureous acid.
Derivatives
sulˈphureously adv.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adverb]
fouleOE
foullyOE
puantlya1529
stinkingly1545
rammishly1567
noisomely1589
stinking1589
rankfully1607
rancidly1637
sulphuriously1638
pungently1658
rankly1661
sulphureously1677
overcomingly1840
loud1871
unfragrantly1883
malodorously1903
1677 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (new ed.) 35 A Town [sc. Aden] low in its scituation and sulphureously shaded by the high and barren Mountain Cabobarra, whose Brazen front so scorches this miserable place.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 2/1 The air still smelt sulphureously.
sulˈphureousness n.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > quality or condition
stenchc1175
stinka1325
stinkingness1382
crueltyc1420
contagya1513
dain1574
unsweetness1596
contagion1662
pungency1663
poignancy1677
sulphureousness1690
fetidness1704
poignance1782
pungence1810
fetidity1829
piquance1867
malodorousness1886
smelliness1892
niffiness1942
the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [noun] > sulphureousness
brimstoniness1398
sulphureity1612
sulphurity1650
sulphureousness1690
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. x. II. 83 *Sulphureousness of the Soil.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 83 The Sulphureousness of it's smell, and tast.
1727 S. Hales Statical Ess. (1731) I. 311 In proportion to the sulphureousness and thickness of those fumes.
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