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Webster 1913 Edition


Pluvious

Plu′vi-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
pluviosus
,
pluvius
, fr.
pluvia
rain: cf. F.
pluvieux
. See
Pluvial
,
Adj.
]
Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial.
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pluvious

PLU'VIOUS

,
Adj.
[L. pluvialis, from pluvia, rain.] Rainy; humid.

Definition 2024


pluvious

pluvious

English

Adjective

pluvious (comparative more pluvious, superlative most pluvious)

  1. Of or pertaining to the condition of heavy rain; rainy.
    Rachael sat by the fireplace one pluvious evening.
    • 1440, Duke Humphrey, “Book VI May”, in Mark Harvey Liddel, editor, The Middle-English Translation of Palladius De Re Rustica, Berlin: E. Ebering, translation of De Re Rustica by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, published 1896, page 172:
      In places ouer colde And pluuyous, olyues is to done To kitte, and mosse awey be rased wolde.

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