voluminousadj.

Brit.

/vəˈluːmᵻnəs/,

/vəˈljuːmᵻnəs/, U.S.

/vəˈl(j)umənəs/

Forms: Also 1600s volluminous.

Etymology: < late Latin volūminōsus (Sidonius), < Latin volūmin- , volūmen volume n. Compare French volumineux, Italian voluminoso, Spanish voluminoso, Portuguese voluminoso.

1. Full of turnings or windings; containing or consisting of many coils or convolutions.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves

tortivous14..

anfractuous?a1425

tortuous1426

tortuea1500

snakish1532

winding1538

wormy1545

boughty1570

wriggled1572

sinuous1578

serpent-likea1586

crankled1594

serpent1597

snaky1600

flexuous1605

snaking1605

cringle-crangle1606

voluminous1611

serpenting?1614

serpentine1615

curvy1623

serpentizing1628

worming1631

lacinious1648

anguineous1656

anguine1657

anfractuose1680

twisting1683

vermicular1712

worm-like1721

flexuose1727

meandering1748

crinkum-crankum1766

serpentiform1777

serpentining1799

anguiform1800

ophite1828

tortuose1829

cranky1836

sinuose1836

serpentile1857

twisty1857

sinuated1859

vermiculatea1864

twinyc1868

tortive1880

crinkle-crankle1881

serpentinous1882

quirky1890

twistical1890

waggly1894

wriggly1901

squiggly1902

wiggly1903

contortionate1911

wig-waggy1914

curvaceous1965

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Oo8 The manifold turnings and windings of the way like a company of voluminous Meanders.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 652 Many a scaly fould Voluminous and vast, a Serpent arm'd With mortal sting.

1781 W. Cowper Heroism 15 Dark and voluminous the vapours rise, And hang their horrors in the neighb'ring skies.

1792 D. Lloyd Voy. Life iii. 46 When the serpents twain From Tenidos voluminous and vast, Him and his sons with poisonous jaws devour'd.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. x. 180 These voluminous bowels, this prolixity of gut, seems in no wise necessary.

1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 429 These lateral portions [of the cerebellum] are a little flattened, and more voluminous than the middle region.

2. Writing so much as to fill volumes; producing numerous or extensive literary works; writing or discoursing at great length.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [adjective] > writing much or on many subjects

voluminous1611

polygraphic1735

omniscriptive1821

pangraphic1821

multo-scribbling1822

omniscribent1891

proliferous1959

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > prolix > of persons

prolixa1527

prolixousa1527

large1605

voluminous1611

wire-drawing1741

elongative1836

aeolistic1882

prolixious1913

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. ix. 203/1 Cæsar Baronius, that voluminous Historian.

1654 ‘Palaemon’ Friendship 30 If I were to recapitulate all the Motives..I should be Voluminous.

1656 A. Cowley Misc. 24 in Poems I more voluminous should grow..Then Holinshead or Stow.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 124. ¶1 The most severe Reader makes Allowances for many Rests and Nodding-places in a Voluminous Writer.

1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) II. lix. 10 For the very learned and voluminous Grotius was engaged in public life.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. xliv It is some consolation to reflect, that the best authors in all countries have been the most voluminous.

1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude xi. 225 You should be good-natured and voluminous in your replies.

1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 118 They were all..voluminous correspondents.

a. Forming a large volume; extending to, or consisting of, many volumes; extensive, copious.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > [adjective] > filling

voluminous1612

volumed1746

1612 T. Dekker Troia-Noua Triumphans 365 Erect thou then a Serious Eye, And looke What Worthies fill vp Fames Voluminous booke.

1665 R. Boyle Disc. iii. ii, in Occas. Refl. sig. D1^v Those Voluminous Romances that are too often the only Books which make up the Libraries of Gallants.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. i. 1 Voluminous Works have but few Buyers, and much fewer Readers.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 331 Let the voluminous records of the numerous apothecaries' shops at Bath be examined.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 309 Why should we be so obstinately wedded to the infallible correctness of voluminous writings?

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 154 He will tell you that the folly of a day..is recorded in voluminous documents.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. viii. 200 Questions which..produced a voluminous literature for several centuries.

1878 S. Newcomb Pop. Astron. Index 54 A recent and complete edition of Kepler's voluminous writings.

figurative.1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 381 By what the Stars Voluminous, or single characters, In their conjunction met, give me to spell.

b. Containing many volumes. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with

voluminous1690

book-lined1809

book-walled1822

book-bound1839

book-filled1855

bookful1896

volumed1897

1690 W. Temple Ess. Learning (1909) 5 The account of this Library at Alexandria, and others very Voluminous in the lesser Asia and Rome.

a. Of matter of discourse: Extremely full or copious; forming a large mass or collection.

ΘΚΠ

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

large?c1400

ample1447

copiousc1450

exuberous1651

exuberant1654

voluminous1672

fuse1724

1672 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 45 I have now prepar'd Aunswers to the objections.., but they are so voluminous as they will require some time to transcribe.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 162 Unless they [these passages] were less numerous and voluminous than they are.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 122 They made great and voluminous expressions..of their affection to the Kingdom and People of England.

1745 E. Young Consolation 81 One Firmament, enough for Man to read! O what Voluminous Instruction Here?

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 434 It is difficult to impress them with a favourable opinion of the wisdom and justice of our voluminous laws.

1821 W. Hazlitt Table-talk viii. ⁋1. 162 The impressions of real objects, stripped of the disguises of words and voluminous roundabout descriptions.

1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metric Syst. iii. (1871) 247 The assize of casks has been in Maryland,..a subject of frequent and voluminous legislation.

b. In general use: Extensive, vast.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > extensive or on a large scale

largea1400

ample1437

farc1475

diffused?1570

spacious1589

extensive1605

wholesale1642

diffuse1644

extense1644

voluminousa1652

amplivagant1656

extentive1658

numerousa1661

extended1700

amplivagous1731

far-reaching1824

Homeric1841

large-scale1856

wholescale1910

wide-scale1925

big-scale1930

macroscopic1931

broadscale1958

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. i. 12 Truth is not, I fear, so Voluminous, nor swells into such a mighty bulk as our Books doe.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 3 Many have taken voluminous pains to determine the state of the soul upon disunion.

1870 J. Bruce Life Gideon xiii. 239 These matters are too varied and too voluminous for any further notice here.

1899 Times 31 Oct. 9/5 Not that..all our splendid English history [is] one voluminous mistake.

c. Expressing volumes. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [adjective]

sententiousc1440

pregnant?a1475

significant1566

senseful1596

mattery1602

significative1639

expressive1690

meaning1726

voluminous1804

meaningful1852

eloquent1870

1804 ‘Gabrielli’ Something Odd! III. 96 He..cast a most voluminous look on Clara.

a. Of great volume or size; massive, bulky, large, swelling.The different groups of quotations illustrate some varieties of application.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective]

loud971

stithc1000

strongOE

greata1375

stiff1377

wrastc1400

boistousc1430

stourc1440

big1549

routing1567

thundering?1576

full-mouthed1594

thunderous1606

tonitruous1606

thundery1608

trump-like1609

full-mouth1624

voluminousa1635

rousing1640

altisonous1661

lusty1672

tonitrual1693

rending1719

trumpet-like1814

foudroyant1840

clarion1842

trumpeting1850

trumpet-toned1851

loudish1860

tonitruant1861

tonant1891

thunderful1898

high1923

wham-bam1960

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky

burlyc1400

bulkedc1420

massyc1540

bowerly1542

lumpish1545

big-bodied1561

massy?1571

spacious1595

voluminousa1635

grossy1648

bulkishc1660

bulky1687

bulksomea1693

material1715

bouksome1785

dinosaurian1916

dinosauric1922

(a)

a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 11 When now Thy observations with thy brain ingendered, Have stuft thy massy and voluminous head.

a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lii. 2 in Wks. (1640) III I am not so voluminous, and vast, But there are lines, wherewith I might b' embrac'd.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. B2^v The larger and more voluminous sort of Animals, as Bulls, Bears, Tygers, &c.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 211 It swells up a great deal, and presents an exceedingly voluminous light mass.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 248 The most voluminous current of lava which has flowed from Etna within historical times, was that of 1669.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxx. 397 That young lady with the voluminous light brown hair.

(b)a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 84 His Legs are stuck in his great voluminous Britches.1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. i. 70 The voluminous skirts turned up at the corners.1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vi. 112 On no account would Mademoiselle have appeared in her own house without the thick handkerchief and the voluminous apron.1883 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis xii. 134 The men, with their voluminous turbans.1883 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis xix. 218 A long, striped crimson tunic, girt with voluminous white sash.(c)1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 386/2 In Phasianella the stomach is very voluminous and sacculated internally.1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 386 When you fear wounding any rather voluminous vessel, arterial or venous, you may embrace it beyond the diseased parts in a ligature.1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 15 The neck is a little shorter and less voluminous than the head.in combination.1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 116 Now Law steps in, bigwigged, voluminous-jawed.(d)1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. ii. 205 The thundery discharge, the howling winds, are voluminous sounds.1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xvi. 259 The voluminous noise of this opening passage.1885 Manch. Examiner 20 Feb. 5/7 Tory cheers, which from the first were more loud than voluminous, rather fell away.

b. Large in numbers; numerous. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous

so manyc888

thickc893

muchc1225

rifec1275

stourc1275

unridec1300

copiousc1384

plentya1400

rivedc1400

numerable?a1425

numerous?a1475

many a several1543

rank1545

numberous1566

huge1570

multuous1586

multeous1589

numberful1594

numberable1596

numbery1606

numbersomea1617

multitudinousa1631

sand-like1630

voluminous1650

several1712

smart1750

powerful1800

multitudinarious1810

multitudinary1838

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xiv. 303 Judas Maccabeus in that place got an eminent conquest, and defeated the voluminous Army of Lysias.

c. Extensive in area or in time. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [adjective]

longOE

timefulc1390

voluminousa1661

protensive1673

diachronic1857

durational1881

the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring

longeOE

longsomeeOE

long of lifeOE

lastinga1225

cleaving1340

continualc1340

dwellingc1380

long-livinga1382

everlastingc1384

long-duringa1387

long-lasting?a1400

long-liveda1400

broadc1400

permanable?c1422

perseverant?a1425

permanentc1425

perdurable?a1439

continuedc1440

abiding1448

unremoved1455

eternalc1460

long-continued1464

continuing1526

long-enduring1527

enduring1532

immortal1538

diuturn?1541

veterated1547

resiant?1567

stayinga1568

well-wearinga1568

substantive1575

pertinacious1578

extant1581

ceaseless1590

marble1596

of length1597

longeval1598

diuturnal1599

nine-lived1600

chronic1601

unexhausted1602

chronical1604

endurable1607

continuant1610

indeflourishing1610

aged1611

indurant1611

continuatea1616

perennious1628

seculara1631

undiscontinueda1631

continuated1632

untransitory1632

long-spun1633

momently1641

stative1643

outliving1645

constant1653

long-descended1660

voluminousa1661

perduring1664

perdurant1671

livelong1673

perennial1676

longeve1678

consequential1681

unquenched1703

lifelong1746

momentary1755

inveterate1780

stabile1797

persistent1826

unpassing1831

all-time1846

year-long1846

teak-built1847

lengthful1855

long-term1867

long haul1873

sticky1879

week-to-week1879

perenduring1883

long-range1885

longish1889

long-time1902

long run1904

long-life1915

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of vast extent

broadOE

sideOE

wideOE

largec1230

spaciousa1382

unridea1425

amplea1492

well-spreadc1540

main1548

overreaching1579

widespread1582

spacious1587

wide-spreading1587

scopeful1598

vasty1598

scopious1599

vast1600

worldwide1602

spaceful1621

dimensious1632

voluminousa1661

extensive1706

sheety1748

sweeping1772

extended1779

expansive1806

wide-spreaded1820

heaven-wide1835

spanless1847

rangy1898

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 144 Lincolne-shire..being too Volluminous to be managed entire is divided into three parts.

1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 113 The Earth was thin sown with People, and the Age of man so voluminous as to contain many centuries of years.

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单词	voluminous
释义	voluminousadj. Brit. /vəˈluːmᵻnəs/, /vəˈljuːmᵻnəs/, U.S. /vəˈl(j)umənəs/ Forms: Also 1600s volluminous. Etymology: < late Latin volūminōsus (Sidonius), < Latin volūmin- , volūmen volume n. Compare French volumineux, Italian voluminoso, Spanish voluminoso, Portuguese voluminoso. 1. Full of turnings or windings; containing or consisting of many coils or convolutions. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves tortivous14.. anfractuous?a1425 tortuous1426 tortuea1500 snakish1532 winding1538 wormy1545 boughty1570 wriggled1572 sinuous1578 serpent-likea1586 crankled1594 serpent1597 snaky1600 flexuous1605 snaking1605 cringle-crangle1606 voluminous1611 serpenting?1614 serpentine1615 curvy1623 serpentizing1628 worming1631 lacinious1648 anguineous1656 anguine1657 anfractuose1680 twisting1683 vermicular1712 worm-like1721 flexuose1727 meandering1748 crinkum-crankum1766 serpentiform1777 serpentining1799 anguiform1800 ophite1828 tortuose1829 cranky1836 sinuose1836 serpentile1857 twisty1857 sinuated1859 vermiculatea1864 twinyc1868 tortive1880 crinkle-crankle1881 serpentinous1882 quirky1890 twistical1890 waggly1894 wriggly1901 squiggly1902 wiggly1903 contortionate1911 wig-waggy1914 curvaceous1965 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Oo8 The manifold turnings and windings of the way like a company of voluminous Meanders. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 652 Many a scaly fould Voluminous and vast, a Serpent arm'd With mortal sting. View more context for this quotation 1781 W. Cowper Heroism 15 Dark and voluminous the vapours rise, And hang their horrors in the neighb'ring skies. 1792 D. Lloyd Voy. Life iii. 46 When the serpents twain From Tenidos voluminous and vast, Him and his sons with poisonous jaws devour'd. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. x. 180 These voluminous bowels, this prolixity of gut, seems in no wise necessary. 1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 429 These lateral portions [of the cerebellum] are a little flattened, and more voluminous than the middle region. 2. Writing so much as to fill volumes; producing numerous or extensive literary works; writing or discoursing at great length. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [adjective] > writing much or on many subjects voluminous1611 polygraphic1735 omniscriptive1821 pangraphic1821 multo-scribbling1822 omniscribent1891 proliferous1959 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > prolix > of persons prolixa1527 prolixousa1527 large1605 voluminous1611 wire-drawing1741 elongative1836 aeolistic1882 prolixious1913 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. ix. 203/1 Cæsar Baronius, that voluminous Historian. 1654 ‘Palaemon’ Friendship 30 If I were to recapitulate all the Motives..I should be Voluminous. 1656 A. Cowley Misc. 24 in Poems I more voluminous should grow..Then Holinshead or Stow. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 124. ¶1 The most severe Reader makes Allowances for many Rests and Nodding-places in a Voluminous Writer. 1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) II. lix. 10 For the very learned and voluminous Grotius was engaged in public life. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. xliv It is some consolation to reflect, that the best authors in all countries have been the most voluminous. 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude xi. 225 You should be good-natured and voluminous in your replies. 1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 118 They were all..voluminous correspondents. 3. a. Forming a large volume; extending to, or consisting of, many volumes; extensive, copious. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > filling voluminous1612 volumed1746 1612 T. Dekker Troia-Noua Triumphans 365 Erect thou then a Serious Eye, And looke What Worthies fill vp Fames Voluminous booke. 1665 R. Boyle Disc. iii. ii, in Occas. Refl. sig. D1^v Those Voluminous Romances that are too often the only Books which make up the Libraries of Gallants. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. i. 1 Voluminous Works have but few Buyers, and much fewer Readers. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 331 Let the voluminous records of the numerous apothecaries' shops at Bath be examined. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 309 Why should we be so obstinately wedded to the infallible correctness of voluminous writings? 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 154 He will tell you that the folly of a day..is recorded in voluminous documents. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. viii. 200 Questions which..produced a voluminous literature for several centuries. 1878 S. Newcomb Pop. Astron. Index 54 A recent and complete edition of Kepler's voluminous writings. figurative.1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 381 By what the Stars Voluminous, or single characters, In their conjunction met, give me to spell. View more context for this quotation b. Containing many volumes. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with voluminous1690 book-lined1809 book-walled1822 book-bound1839 book-filled1855 bookful1896 volumed1897 1690 W. Temple Ess. Learning (1909) 5 The account of this Library at Alexandria, and others very Voluminous in the lesser Asia and Rome. 4. a. Of matter of discourse: Extremely full or copious; forming a large mass or collection. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] large?c1400 ample1447 copiousc1450 exuberous1651 exuberant1654 voluminous1672 fuse1724 1672 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 45 I have now prepar'd Aunswers to the objections.., but they are so voluminous as they will require some time to transcribe. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 162 Unless they [these passages] were less numerous and voluminous than they are. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 122 They made great and voluminous expressions..of their affection to the Kingdom and People of England. 1745 E. Young Consolation 81 One Firmament, enough for Man to read! O what Voluminous Instruction Here? 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 434 It is difficult to impress them with a favourable opinion of the wisdom and justice of our voluminous laws. 1821 W. Hazlitt Table-talk viii. ⁋1. 162 The impressions of real objects, stripped of the disguises of words and voluminous roundabout descriptions. 1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metric Syst. iii. (1871) 247 The assize of casks has been in Maryland,..a subject of frequent and voluminous legislation. b. In general use: Extensive, vast. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > extensive or on a large scale largea1400 ample1437 farc1475 diffused?1570 spacious1589 extensive1605 wholesale1642 diffuse1644 extense1644 voluminousa1652 amplivagant1656 extentive1658 numerousa1661 extended1700 amplivagous1731 far-reaching1824 Homeric1841 large-scale1856 wholescale1910 wide-scale1925 big-scale1930 macroscopic1931 broadscale1958 a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. i. 12 Truth is not, I fear, so Voluminous, nor swells into such a mighty bulk as our Books doe. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 3 Many have taken voluminous pains to determine the state of the soul upon disunion. 1870 J. Bruce Life Gideon xiii. 239 These matters are too varied and too voluminous for any further notice here. 1899 Times 31 Oct. 9/5 Not that..all our splendid English history [is] one voluminous mistake. c. Expressing volumes. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [adjective] sententiousc1440 pregnant?a1475 significant1566 senseful1596 mattery1602 significative1639 expressive1690 meaning1726 voluminous1804 meaningful1852 eloquent1870 1804 ‘Gabrielli’ Something Odd! III. 96 He..cast a most voluminous look on Clara. 5. a. Of great volume or size; massive, bulky, large, swelling.The different groups of quotations illustrate some varieties of application. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] loud971 stithc1000 strongOE greata1375 stiff1377 wrastc1400 boistousc1430 stourc1440 big1549 routing1567 thundering?1576 full-mouthed1594 thunderous1606 tonitruous1606 thundery1608 trump-like1609 full-mouth1624 voluminousa1635 rousing1640 altisonous1661 lusty1672 tonitrual1693 rending1719 trumpet-like1814 foudroyant1840 clarion1842 trumpeting1850 trumpet-toned1851 loudish1860 tonitruant1861 tonant1891 thunderful1898 high1923 wham-bam1960 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky burlyc1400 bulkedc1420 massyc1540 bowerly1542 lumpish1545 big-bodied1561 massy?1571 spacious1595 voluminousa1635 grossy1648 bulkishc1660 bulky1687 bulksomea1693 material1715 bouksome1785 dinosaurian1916 dinosauric1922 (a) a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 11 When now Thy observations with thy brain ingendered, Have stuft thy massy and voluminous head. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lii. 2 in Wks. (1640) III I am not so voluminous, and vast, But there are lines, wherewith I might b' embrac'd. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. B2^v The larger and more voluminous sort of Animals, as Bulls, Bears, Tygers, &c. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 211 It swells up a great deal, and presents an exceedingly voluminous light mass. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 248 The most voluminous current of lava which has flowed from Etna within historical times, was that of 1669. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxx. 397 That young lady with the voluminous light brown hair. (b)a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 84 His Legs are stuck in his great voluminous Britches.1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. i. 70 The voluminous skirts turned up at the corners.1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vi. 112 On no account would Mademoiselle have appeared in her own house without the thick handkerchief and the voluminous apron.1883 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis xii. 134 The men, with their voluminous turbans.1883 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis xix. 218 A long, striped crimson tunic, girt with voluminous white sash.(c)1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 386/2 In Phasianella the stomach is very voluminous and sacculated internally.1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 386 When you fear wounding any rather voluminous vessel, arterial or venous, you may embrace it beyond the diseased parts in a ligature.1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 15 The neck is a little shorter and less voluminous than the head.in combination.1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 116 Now Law steps in, bigwigged, voluminous-jawed.(d)1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. ii. 205 The thundery discharge, the howling winds, are voluminous sounds.1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xvi. 259 The voluminous noise of this opening passage.1885 Manch. Examiner 20 Feb. 5/7 Tory cheers, which from the first were more loud than voluminous, rather fell away. b. Large in numbers; numerous. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > abundant, numerous so manyc888 thickc893 muchc1225 rifec1275 stourc1275 unridec1300 copiousc1384 plentya1400 rivedc1400 numerable?a1425 numerous?a1475 many a several1543 rank1545 numberous1566 huge1570 multuous1586 multeous1589 numberful1594 numberable1596 numbery1606 numbersomea1617 multitudinousa1631 sand-like1630 voluminous1650 several1712 smart1750 powerful1800 multitudinarious1810 multitudinary1838 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xiv. 303 Judas Maccabeus in that place got an eminent conquest, and defeated the voluminous Army of Lysias. c. Extensive in area or in time. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] longOE timefulc1390 voluminousa1661 protensive1673 diachronic1857 durational1881 the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring longeOE longsomeeOE long of lifeOE lastinga1225 cleaving1340 continualc1340 dwellingc1380 long-livinga1382 everlastingc1384 long-duringa1387 long-lasting?a1400 long-liveda1400 broadc1400 permanable?c1422 perseverant?a1425 permanentc1425 perdurable?a1439 continuedc1440 abiding1448 unremoved1455 eternalc1460 long-continued1464 continuing1526 long-enduring1527 enduring1532 immortal1538 diuturn?1541 veterated1547 resiant?1567 stayinga1568 well-wearinga1568 substantive1575 pertinacious1578 extant1581 ceaseless1590 marble1596 of length1597 longeval1598 diuturnal1599 nine-lived1600 chronic1601 unexhausted1602 chronical1604 endurable1607 continuant1610 indeflourishing1610 aged1611 indurant1611 continuatea1616 perennious1628 seculara1631 undiscontinueda1631 continuated1632 untransitory1632 long-spun1633 momently1641 stative1643 outliving1645 constant1653 long-descended1660 voluminousa1661 perduring1664 perdurant1671 livelong1673 perennial1676 longeve1678 consequential1681 unquenched1703 lifelong1746 momentary1755 inveterate1780 stabile1797 persistent1826 unpassing1831 all-time1846 year-long1846 teak-built1847 lengthful1855 long-term1867 long haul1873 sticky1879 week-to-week1879 perenduring1883 long-range1885 longish1889 long-time1902 long run1904 long-life1915 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of vast extent broadOE sideOE wideOE largec1230 spaciousa1382 unridea1425 amplea1492 well-spreadc1540 main1548 overreaching1579 widespread1582 spacious1587 wide-spreading1587 scopeful1598 vasty1598 scopious1599 vast1600 worldwide1602 spaceful1621 dimensious1632 voluminousa1661 extensive1706 sheety1748 sweeping1772 extended1779 expansive1806 wide-spreaded1820 heaven-wide1835 spanless1847 rangy1898 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 144 Lincolne-shire..being too Volluminous to be managed entire is divided into three parts. 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 113 The Earth was thin sown with People, and the Age of man so voluminous as to contain many centuries of years. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1611
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