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† ˈflatuous, a. Obs.
Also 7 flateous.
[ad. F. flatueux, as if ad. L. *flātuōs-us, f. L. flātus a blowing: see -ous.]
1. Of a windy nature; full of wind or gas; = flatulent 1.
1580G. Harvey Three Proper Lett. 12 Such feverous..and flatuous spirits as lurke within. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 704 Like as in our bodies there..arise certeine flatuous tumors. 1653Gauden Hierasp. 44 Their flatuous and unrefined Wines. 1710Death of T. Whigg ii. 45 Whose Blood being flatuous and foul.
2. a. Resulting from inflation. b. Resembling wind in its action.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 134 Seeds, wherein at first may be discerned a flatuous distension of the husk. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 78 It hath well pleased the Eternall, to place in the Stars, a flatuous, violent, motive force.
3. = flatulent 3.
1601Holland Pliny II. 170 If a man eat them [mulberries] alone..they swell in the stomack and be very flatuous. 1603Holland Plutarch's Rom. Quest. (1892) 64 So it is that pulse be flateous and windy. 1676T. Glover in Phil. Trans. XI. 634 They use no correctives to take away the flatuous, nauseous, and other bad qualities of them.
4. = flatulent 4.
1600W. Vaughan Directions for Health (1633) 55 The morphew, or else some flatuous windy humour. 1694Westmacott Script. Herb. 20 The plaster seldom fails in cold flatuous pains. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 118 It [i.e. the Electuary] is a notable experimented thing against..flatuous Stitches in the Side.
5. fig. = flatulent 5.
1630May Lucan Contn. i. 353 But swift as thoughts can flie..in a moment goe The flatuous dreames through th' aire. 1653A. Wilson Jas. I, 291 Willing to be less than the least in the Times flatuous opinion. 1720J. Johnson Canons Ch. Eng. Advt. to Reader §7 They were drawn in a very flatuous Style, and contain but very little Sense in many Lines.
Hence † ˈflatuousness.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme vi. xxii. 797 Such [wines]..ingender a masse of many crudities, and much flatuousnes. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 113 In Feuers (by reason of their heat and flateousnes) they are not to be admitted. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 87, I can impute it to nothing, but to the flatuousnesse of our diet. |