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fluctuous, a. Obs. exc. arch.|ˈflʌktjuːəs|
[ad. L. fluctuōsus full of waves f. fluctus wave: see -ous.]
†a. Watery (obs.).
b. Full of, or resembling waves, lit. and fig.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 61/2 An Excellent collyrion for tenebrous and fluctuous Eyes [orig. für dunckele und flüssige Augen]. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 212 All the fennie Lerna betwixt..being..fluctuous demeans or fee simple. 1627–77Feltham Resolves i. xlviii. 76 How fluctuous are the salted waves. 1839Bailey Festus (1854) 133 The base of the world's fluctuous lore.
Hence fluctuˈosity.
1850L. Hunt Autobiog. II. xvii. 278 Waves might be classed..we ought to have waves, wavelets, billows, fluctuosities, etc., a marble sea, a sea weltering. |