† sulˈphuriousadj.

1560 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 38 O suttell Serpent sulphurius.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 16, Ouirset with slicht sulphurious, And suddand mort.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor (new ed.) v. v. 28 Spare no Sulphurious [1616 sulphurous] jeast that may come out of that sweatie Forge of thine.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. iii. 268 At Lypara and those sulphurious Iles.

1627 H. Burton Baiting Popes Bull 13 That Canon of Trent, which dischargeth a sulphurious Anathema against the doctrine.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes i. §23. 30 Even on a sudden was that faire skie turned into a sulphurious and most dismall skie.

1652 Ripley's Compend of Alchemy in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 172 [That] hys fatnys sulphuryose Be mynyshyd in hym whych ys infectuose.

1682 G. Hartman Digby's Choice Coll. Rare Secrets i. 46 Filter and evaporate, and you shall have a Sulphurious Salt.

a1683 P. Warwick Mem. Reign Charles I (1701) 18 A sulphurious vapour flew from an unadvised mouth of Mr. Clement Cooke.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 235 Through kindled Fires from sulphurious Caverns.

1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. 390 A remarkable Well, which being emptied, there presently breaks out a Sulphrious Vapour.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 31 Aden is seated low, sulphuriously [1677 sulphureously] shaded by a high barren Mountaine; whose brazen front scorching the miserable Towne, yeelds a perfect character of Turkish basenesse.