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Webster 1913 Edition

Voluminous

Vo-lu′mi-nous

,
Adj.
[L.
voluminosus
: cf. F.
volumineux
.]
Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
Specifically: –
(a)
Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
Voluminous
and vast.
Milton.
Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and
voluminous
curtains have long since fallen.
De Quincey.
(b)
Of great volume, or bulk; large.
B. Jonson.
(c)
Consisting of many volumes or books; as, the collections of Muratori are voluminous .
(d)
Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse;
as, a
voluminous
writer
.
–
Vo-lu′mi-nous-ly
,
adv.
–
Vo-lu′mi-nous-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Voluminous

VOLU'MINOUS

, a.
1.
Consisting of many coils or complications.
The serpent roll'd voluminous and vast.
2.
Consisting of many volumes or books.
The collections of Muratori and of the Byzantine history, are very voluminous.
3.
Having written much, or made many volumes; as a voluminons writer.
4.
Copious; diffusive. He was too voluminous in discourse. [Not in use.]

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