† roridadj.
Obsolete.
Dewy; of the nature of dew. Very common in 17th cent., esp. in rorid cloud.
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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 25 Signez & domez bene bolnyng raised up, colour rored [?c1425 Paris glistrynge; L. roridus], i. dewy, rednez blody..& oþer signez bitokenyng replecion of blode.
1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) sig. G1v As Phoebus throwes His beames abroad, though he in clowdes be closde, Still glancing by them till he finde opposde, A loose and rorid vapour.
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. G3 Rorid cloudes being suckt into the Ayre.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 345 The Rainebow..caused by the rayes of the Sunne, falling upon a roride and opposite cloud. View more context for this quotation
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Direct. conc. Melons 3 in Compl. Gard'ner A little Rorid meazing out of the Pulp; but by no means Watrish and Flashy.
1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost II. 306 It was known to the Greeks.., not under the Name of Manna, but of aerial or rorid Honey.
1869 E. Bulwer-Lytton Poems I. 194 Leave to the Lark his lucid chariotings And mirth Memnonian, when auroral skies With rorid azure bathe his rapturous wings.
1892 L. M. Eilshemius To Milton's Ital. Sonnet in Fragments & Flashes of Thought (1907) 249 More beautiful of freshness and sweet smell Of rorid morn, and Juny noon or eve Are thy fair sonnets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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