单词 | exsuccous |
释义 | exsuccousadj. Without juice, sapless. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > arid or without water or moisture > without juice or sap juiceless1602 soplessc1639 exsuccous1646 succeless1657 unjuicy1662 strigose1708 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 99 That which is brought exuccous and dry unto us. View more context for this quotation a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 6 Most Men expected to find a consumed Kell..in this exuccous Corps. 1818 Q. Rev. 18 235 A hard, dry, ‘exsuccous’ style of writing. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 561 The clouds hung like exsuccous sponges in the sky. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1646 |
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