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Webster 1913 Edition


Fellifluous

Fel-lif′lu-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
fellifuus
;
fel
gall +
fluere
to flow.]
Flowing with gall.
[R.]
Johnson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fellifluous

FELLIF'LUOUS

,
Adj.
[L. fel, gall, and fluo, to flow.] Flowing with gall.

Definition 2024


fellifluous

fellifluous

English

Adjective

fellifluous (comparative more fellifluous, superlative most fellifluous)

  1. (rare) Flowing with gall; audacious.
    • Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, The System of Nature: Or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World
      Truth never reveals itself either to the enthusiast smitten with his own reveries; to the fellifluous fanatic enslaved by his prejudices; to the vain glorious mortal puffed up with his own presumptuous ignorance []
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