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单词 aestuous
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aestuousadj.

Brit. /ˈɛstjʊəs/, /ˈɛstʃʊəs/, U.S. /ˈɛstʃ(əw)əs/
Forms: 1700s–1800s estuous, 1800s– aestuous.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin aestuōsus.
Etymology: < classical Latin aestuōsus excessively hot, sweltering, having a high bodily temperature, (of water) seething, raging < aestus heat, hot weather, hot season, summer, high bodily temperature, feverishness, fire of love, passion, rage, fury, spray, rough sea, surge, ebb and flow, tide, flood, current, commotion, tumult, mental disturbance, worry ( < the same Indo-European base as oast n.) + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Middle French aestueux boiling (1584 in an apparently isolated attestation), French (rare) estueux burning (1788). Compare earlier aestive adj., aestuant adj.
rare.
Agitated with or as with heat; boiling, burning. Usually figurative.
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hectic1398
remitting1583
altern1594
hectical1614
hective1642
remittent1670
imputrid1684
intercurrent1684
aestuous1708
angiotenic1799
anabatic1811
masked1833
hyperpyretic1876
hyperpyrexial1896
hyperpyrexic1897
tularaemic1954
the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [adjective]
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anguishous?c1225
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burninga1340
ardentc1374
warm1390
fervent14..
fieryc1430
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feverous1576
glowinga1577
fervorous1602
ferventeda1627
tropica1631
torrid1646
fervid1656
candenta1687
ardurousa1770
tropical1795
aestuous1844
thermal1866
thermonous1888
1708 J. Moyle Chyrurg. Mem. xviii. 46 A Young Girl about 10 years old had a violent Squinzy, the Blood being in an Estuous Ferment, the Jaws Inflamed and swelled to a great Degree.
1833 J. Atkinson Med. Bibliogr. (1834) 165 Over the estuous rivers of Lapland, or its frozen and cacuminous mountains.
1844 Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes 156 Why do I tremble at my æstuous soul, That would embrace the burning God?
1917 H. E. Cory Edmund Spenser vi. 349 The verses, though aestuous, are rich as well in those overtones of the calm that comes with the supreme adventure on the heights within all-hail of peace, yet eternally restless in the wondrous quest now fully understood.
1970 G. Grigson in Poetry Dec. 174 Peculiar the scent of wood anemones, They smell like the sweat of aestuous women.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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