aestiferous

See also: æstiferous

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin aestus (“heat, tide”) +‎ -ferous (“bearing, bringing”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

aestiferous (comparative more aestiferous, superlative most aestiferous)

  1. (obsolete, not comparable)[1] As the tide, turbulent; ebbing and flowing.[2][4]
    • 1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)
      Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
      Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.
  2. (comparable, chiefly figurative) Producing much (aestival) heat.[3]
    • 1979, J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 148, →ISBN:
      Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “aestiferous”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language by John Ash (1775), page 49–53?
    ÆSTIʹFEROUS (adj. from the Lat. æstus a turbulent motion, and fero to bear) Turbulent as the tide.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Dictionary of the English Language Exhibiting the Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definition of Words… by Arnold James Cooley (1861), page 198
    Estiferous, ĕs-tĭfʹ-ĕr-ŭs, a. Bringing heat (as summer).
  4. ^ An Universal Etymological English Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1731), page 28
    ÆSTIʹFEROUS [æstifer, L.] ebbing and flowing as the tide.
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