vaporousadj.

Brit.

/ˈveɪp(ə)rəs/, U.S.

/ˈveɪpərəs/

Forms: Also 1500s vaporouse, vaperous, 1600s vap'rous, 1800s vaprous; 1600s–1800s vapourous.

Etymology: < Latin vapōrus or < Latin vapōrōsus , < vapor vapour n. Compare French vaporeux, Italian vaporoso, Spanish vaporoso, Portuguese vaporoso.

†1. Of a bath: Consisting or composed of vapour. Obsolete. (Cf. vapour bath n.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [adjective] > relating to bathing > type of bath

vaporous1527

whirlpool1950

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Piij Also Escume made of this herbe used in vaperous bathes dystroyeth age.

1631 E. Jorden Disc. Nat. Bathes i. 2 These kinde of watrie and vaporous Bathes haue been in vse from all antiquity.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Balneum Vaporosum The Vapourous Bath, is when the Vessel that contains the Matter..is heated by the Vapours, or Steams that arise from the hot or boiling Water.

a. Emitting or exhaling vapour; †spec. of food in the stomach.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > causing flatulence

fumous1477

fumish1519

vaporous?1543

foggy1657

?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe i. f. v The pacyent ought..to forbeare all vaporous meates, as garlyke, onions [etc.].

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxli. 237 Such things as be most vaparous do most dispose vs to sleepe.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii. 799 The wine is a claret,..of a thinne substance, not fuming or being vaporous.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 181 I aduise all such..to sup..on rosted meats, because they are lesse vaporous.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxxi. 291 To settle their meat to the bottome of their stomach, that it may prove less vaporous to the head.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 20 Scorbutic Ale..restraineth the Ebullition..of the Vapourous Blood.

†b. Of the eyes: Moist with tears. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > suffused or wet with tears

wet?c1225

beweptc1320

tearyc1374

moistc1390

watery1447

watered1571

blubberedc1575

vaporous1583

swelling1769

moist-eyed1797

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Oiv ^v He..at last met by chaunce with a sorcerer, to whom deploring with vaporous eyes his burdenous taske [printed burdurus taste] (etc.).

a. Filled with, thick or dim with, vapour; foggy, misty.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > full of or emitting fumes or vapour

reekingOE

fumosec1400

fuming1575

smokyc1590

vaporous1594

fumid1597

smokinga1616

vapouring1648

fumiferous1656

fumigant1727

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective]

mistyOE

nebulose?1440

roky1440

nubilousc1540

hazya1584

misting1584

vaporous1594

nebulous1597

rawky1601

claggy1621

misky1671

rooky1691

nubilose1730

mistful1733

smoky1769

rouky1808

hazed1840

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F3^v O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night,..Muster thy mists to meete the Easterne light.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 998 Considering that mists, fogs and clouds are no congealations, but onely gatherings and thickenings of a moist and vapourous aire.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 5 There the aire is..seldome infected with vaporous blasts.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 67 Through the Gross and Vaporous Air near the Earth.

1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland ii. 16 The magnetick Attraction of this Ætherial Spirit of Cold, which governs the humid and vaporous Atmosphere.

1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 73 The waveless plain of Lombardy, Bounded by the vaporous air.

1852 N. Hawthorne Mother Rigby's Pipe in Internat. Mag. Feb. 185/1 The small cottage-kitchen became all vaporous.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iv. 124 The outline of the cone was plain against the illuminated vaporous atmosphere.

figurative.1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 334 [The Jesuits'] religious pietie in shew, is but a rainebow cloude, of atheall policie in action, drawne vp in vaporous dewes of cold congealed deuotions.a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1821) ix. ii. 414 To rise above that vaporous sphere of sensual and earthly pleasures, which darken the mind.

b. Covered or obscured with vapour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective] > covered with

vaporousa1687

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) i. 12 Holland is a Level Country,..and by its being moist and vaporous, there is always wind stirring over it.

1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 54 Wide sea,..Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be Upon thy vaporous bosom.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 115 The lower cloud field—itself an empire of vaporous hills.

1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche ii. ix. 17 The tripod shook, and o'er the vaporous well The chaunting Pythoness gave oracle.

a. Having the form, nature, or consistency of vapour. (Common in 19th cent.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour

vaporosec1400

vapoury1597

vaporous1604

fumish1613

halituous1616

vapourish1647

vaporific1797

vapouring1821

vaporiform1860

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xxv. 196 Places in th' earth, whose vertue is to draw vaporous matter, and to convert it into water.

1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 234 How can darknesse be called a Masse? etc. No it cannot. Nor a thin vaporous matter neither.

1678 R. Cudworth tr. Porphyrius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 784 Its being in Hades [is] nothing but its presiding over that Idol, or Enlivened Vaporous Body.

1796 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. II 20 The virus lunare, the vaporous drops that hang in any region of infection. [Cf. Shakes. Macb. iii. v. 24.]

1818 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents (ed. 2) 97 Formed from the vaporous muriatic acid.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. iv. 119 Caused in some way by the vapourous fumes diffused in its air.

1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 284 The photosphere must be composed of a shell of cloudy or vaporous material.

figurative.1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 50 The westering sun That still on plains beyond streams vaporous gold.

†b. In older medical use applied to supposed emanations from internal organs or from substances within the body. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > [adjective] > emanations

fumish1519

vaporous1547

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected with flatulence > vapours

fumish1519

vaporous1547

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. liii A vaporous humour or fumosyte rysinge..from the stomake.

?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. C.vii From the whych ryse vaporouse spirites and move disordinatly about the brayne.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 40 It doth nothing lesse then offend the braine..with vaporous fumes.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 71 These vaporous steams arising from the blood.

c. figurative. Of ideas, feelings, etc.: Fanciful, idle, unsubstantial, vain.

ΚΠ

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh^v So whosoeuer shall entertaine high and vapourous imaginations, in steede of a..sober enquirie of truth shall beget hopes and Beliefes of strange and impossible shapes.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 456 O foolish pride, O suppressing ambition! and vaporous curiosity!

1817 S. T. Coleridge Ode Departing Year (rev. ed.) in Sibylline Leaves 58 The vaporous passions that bedim God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 139 The vapourous exultation not to be confined!

1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld II. xiv. 119 But his arguments were vaporous enough and made little impression.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xvi. 321 But such vaporous conjecture passed away as quickly as it came.

d. Of fabrics or garments: Gauzy, filmy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective] > semi-transparent

translucid1640

hornya1656

semi-diaphanous1663

semi-opacous1663

semi-opaque1692

translucent1726

semi-transparent1797

subtranslucent1828

vaporous1863

1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory III. xvi. 235 The most fragile and vaporous bonnets were to be seen in the Bois de Boulogne.

1881 H. James Portrait of Lady III. iv. 46 She..kept no less anxious an eye upon her vaporous skirts.

1896 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 4/2 Full sleeves of vaporous Indian muslin.

5. Of persons or minds: Inclined to be fanciful, vague, or frothy, in ideas or discourse.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective]

dreaminga1500

fantasied1590

chimerizing1604

vaporous1605

imaginative1626

whimsy1637

airy1643

whimmed1654

chimerical1660

figmentitious1660

notional1664

visionary1712

viewy1848

Barriesque1894

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] > of fanciful nature

feigned1526

fantasticala1546

conceited1588

capricious1594

fanatical1598

vaporous1605

chimerical1638

chimeric1655

lymphatical1678

chimerian1682

wild goose1770

visionary1777

whimmy1785

whimming1787

Laputan1866

viewy1866

Alice1872

Alice-in-Wonderland1874

fantasied1882

Alician1898

blue-sky1920

pie in the sky1930

rocambolesque1935

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C2^v Let him but read the Fable of Ixion, and it will hold him from being vaporous or imaginatiue.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 320 B ——, the mouth-piece of the debating clubs, noisy, vaporous, and democratic.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. v. ii. 235 Shame on my vaporous brain!

6. Of state or condition: Characteristic of vapour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > characteristic of vapour

vaporous1661

1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen in Phœnix (1721) I. 53 We then find that they which steam'd forth in a vaporous Rarity..do at last fall down again in a watery Consistence.

1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 26 The dephlogisticated marine acid, in a vapourous state, certainly acts upon it.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 7 The elevated temperature it demands to be converted into the vaporous state.

1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) iii. §60. 61 We have matter in the vaporous or gaseous form.

Derivatives

ˈvaporously adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > [adverb] > in manner of vapour

vaporously1887

1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 143 The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation.

ˈvaporousness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > quality of

vaporosity1528

vaporousness1600

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii. 777 The most..common annoiance that the vaporousnes of the wine doth cause, is drunkennes.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii. 781 By his vaporousnes it filleth the braine.

1678 J. Hooke Minute 20 June (Hooke Folio Online) 218 The warmth and vaporousnesse of the air at the Bottom of ye Well.

1877 Academy 21 Apr. 352 The whole thing is toned down to a pale husky vaporousness of surface.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	vaporous
释义	vaporousadj. Brit. /ˈveɪp(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˈveɪpərəs/ Forms: Also 1500s vaporouse, vaperous, 1600s vap'rous, 1800s vaprous; 1600s–1800s vapourous. Etymology: < Latin vapōrus or < Latin vapōrōsus , < vapor vapour n. Compare French vaporeux, Italian vaporoso, Spanish vaporoso, Portuguese vaporoso. †1. Of a bath: Consisting or composed of vapour. Obsolete. (Cf. vapour bath n.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [adjective] > relating to bathing > type of bath vaporous1527 whirlpool1950 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Piij Also Escume made of this herbe used in vaperous bathes dystroyeth age. 1631 E. Jorden Disc. Nat. Bathes i. 2 These kinde of watrie and vaporous Bathes haue been in vse from all antiquity. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Balneum Vaporosum The Vapourous Bath, is when the Vessel that contains the Matter..is heated by the Vapours, or Steams that arise from the hot or boiling Water. 2. a. Emitting or exhaling vapour; †spec. of food in the stomach. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > causing flatulence fumous1477 fumish1519 vaporous?1543 foggy1657 ?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe i. f. v The pacyent ought..to forbeare all vaporous meates, as garlyke, onions [etc.]. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxli. 237 Such things as be most vaparous do most dispose vs to sleepe. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii. 799 The wine is a claret,..of a thinne substance, not fuming or being vaporous. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 181 I aduise all such..to sup..on rosted meats, because they are lesse vaporous. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxxi. 291 To settle their meat to the bottome of their stomach, that it may prove less vaporous to the head. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 20 Scorbutic Ale..restraineth the Ebullition..of the Vapourous Blood. †b. Of the eyes: Moist with tears. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > suffused or wet with tears wet?c1225 beweptc1320 tearyc1374 moistc1390 watery1447 watered1571 blubberedc1575 vaporous1583 swelling1769 moist-eyed1797 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Oiv ^v He..at last met by chaunce with a sorcerer, to whom deploring with vaporous eyes his burdenous taske [printed burdurus taste] (etc.). 3. a. Filled with, thick or dim with, vapour; foggy, misty. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > full of or emitting fumes or vapour reekingOE fumosec1400 fuming1575 smokyc1590 vaporous1594 fumid1597 smokinga1616 vapouring1648 fumiferous1656 fumigant1727 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective] mistyOE nebulose?1440 roky1440 nubilousc1540 hazya1584 misting1584 vaporous1594 nebulous1597 rawky1601 claggy1621 misky1671 rooky1691 nubilose1730 mistful1733 smoky1769 rouky1808 hazed1840 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F3^v O hatefull, vaporous, and foggy night,..Muster thy mists to meete the Easterne light. View more context for this quotation 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 998 Considering that mists, fogs and clouds are no congealations, but onely gatherings and thickenings of a moist and vapourous aire. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 5 There the aire is..seldome infected with vaporous blasts. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 67 Through the Gross and Vaporous Air near the Earth. 1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland ii. 16 The magnetick Attraction of this Ætherial Spirit of Cold, which governs the humid and vaporous Atmosphere. 1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 73 The waveless plain of Lombardy, Bounded by the vaporous air. 1852 N. Hawthorne Mother Rigby's Pipe in Internat. Mag. Feb. 185/1 The small cottage-kitchen became all vaporous. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iv. 124 The outline of the cone was plain against the illuminated vaporous atmosphere. figurative.1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 334 [The Jesuits'] religious pietie in shew, is but a rainebow cloude, of atheall policie in action, drawne vp in vaporous dewes of cold congealed deuotions.a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1821) ix. ii. 414 To rise above that vaporous sphere of sensual and earthly pleasures, which darken the mind. b. Covered or obscured with vapour. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [adjective] > covered with vaporousa1687 a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) i. 12 Holland is a Level Country,..and by its being moist and vaporous, there is always wind stirring over it. 1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 54 Wide sea,..Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be Upon thy vaporous bosom. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 115 The lower cloud field—itself an empire of vaporous hills. 1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche ii. ix. 17 The tripod shook, and o'er the vaporous well The chaunting Pythoness gave oracle. 4. a. Having the form, nature, or consistency of vapour. (Common in 19th cent.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour vaporosec1400 vapoury1597 vaporous1604 fumish1613 halituous1616 vapourish1647 vaporific1797 vapouring1821 vaporiform1860 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xxv. 196 Places in th' earth, whose vertue is to draw vaporous matter, and to convert it into water. 1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 234 How can darknesse be called a Masse? etc. No it cannot. Nor a thin vaporous matter neither. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Porphyrius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 784 Its being in Hades [is] nothing but its presiding over that Idol, or Enlivened Vaporous Body. 1796 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. II 20 The virus lunare, the vaporous drops that hang in any region of infection. [Cf. Shakes. Macb. iii. v. 24.] 1818 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents (ed. 2) 97 Formed from the vaporous muriatic acid. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. iv. 119 Caused in some way by the vapourous fumes diffused in its air. 1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 284 The photosphere must be composed of a shell of cloudy or vaporous material. figurative.1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 50 The westering sun That still on plains beyond streams vaporous gold. †b. In older medical use applied to supposed emanations from internal organs or from substances within the body. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > [adjective] > emanations fumish1519 vaporous1547 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected with flatulence > vapours fumish1519 vaporous1547 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. liii A vaporous humour or fumosyte rysinge..from the stomake. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. C.vii From the whych ryse vaporouse spirites and move disordinatly about the brayne. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 40 It doth nothing lesse then offend the braine..with vaporous fumes. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 71 These vaporous steams arising from the blood. c. figurative. Of ideas, feelings, etc.: Fanciful, idle, unsubstantial, vain. ΚΠ 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh^v So whosoeuer shall entertaine high and vapourous imaginations, in steede of a..sober enquirie of truth shall beget hopes and Beliefes of strange and impossible shapes. View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 456 O foolish pride, O suppressing ambition! and vaporous curiosity! 1817 S. T. Coleridge Ode Departing Year (rev. ed.) in Sibylline Leaves 58 The vaporous passions that bedim God's Image, sister of the Seraphim. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 139 The vapourous exultation not to be confined! 1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld II. xiv. 119 But his arguments were vaporous enough and made little impression. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xvi. 321 But such vaporous conjecture passed away as quickly as it came. d. Of fabrics or garments: Gauzy, filmy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective] > semi-transparent translucid1640 hornya1656 semi-diaphanous1663 semi-opacous1663 semi-opaque1692 translucent1726 semi-transparent1797 subtranslucent1828 vaporous1863 1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory III. xvi. 235 The most fragile and vaporous bonnets were to be seen in the Bois de Boulogne. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady III. iv. 46 She..kept no less anxious an eye upon her vaporous skirts. 1896 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 4/2 Full sleeves of vaporous Indian muslin. 5. Of persons or minds: Inclined to be fanciful, vague, or frothy, in ideas or discourse. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] dreaminga1500 fantasied1590 chimerizing1604 vaporous1605 imaginative1626 whimsy1637 airy1643 whimmed1654 chimerical1660 figmentitious1660 notional1664 visionary1712 viewy1848 Barriesque1894 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] > of fanciful nature feigned1526 fantasticala1546 conceited1588 capricious1594 fanatical1598 vaporous1605 chimerical1638 chimeric1655 lymphatical1678 chimerian1682 wild goose1770 visionary1777 whimmy1785 whimming1787 Laputan1866 viewy1866 Alice1872 Alice-in-Wonderland1874 fantasied1882 Alician1898 blue-sky1920 pie in the sky1930 rocambolesque1935 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C2^v Let him but read the Fable of Ixion, and it will hold him from being vaporous or imaginatiue. View more context for this quotation 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 320 B ——, the mouth-piece of the debating clubs, noisy, vaporous, and democratic. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. v. ii. 235 Shame on my vaporous brain! 6. Of state or condition: Characteristic of vapour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > characteristic of vapour vaporous1661 1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen in Phœnix (1721) I. 53 We then find that they which steam'd forth in a vaporous Rarity..do at last fall down again in a watery Consistence. 1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 26 The dephlogisticated marine acid, in a vapourous state, certainly acts upon it. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 7 The elevated temperature it demands to be converted into the vaporous state. 1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) iii. §60. 61 We have matter in the vaporous or gaseous form. Derivatives ˈvaporously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [adverb] > in manner of vapour vaporously1887 1887 J. R. Lowell Democracy & Other Addr. 143 The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation. ˈvaporousness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > quality of vaporosity1528 vaporousness1600 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii. 777 The most..common annoiance that the vaporousnes of the wine doth cause, is drunkennes. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii. 781 By his vaporousnes it filleth the braine. 1678 J. Hooke Minute 20 June (Hooke Folio Online) 218 The warmth and vaporousnesse of the air at the Bottom of ye Well. 1877 Academy 21 Apr. 352 The whole thing is toned down to a pale husky vaporousness of surface. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1527
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