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Webster 1913 Edition
Sulphureous
Sul-phu′re-ous
,Adj.
[L.
sulphureus
, sulfureus
.] Consisting of sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur, or brimstone; impregnated with sulphur.
Her snakes united,
– sulphureous
waters drink. Pope.
Sul-phu′re-ous-ly
, adv.
Sul-phu′re-ous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sulphureous
SULPHU'REOUS
,Adj.
Her snakes untied, sulphureous waters drink.
Definition 2024
sulphureous
sulphureous
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
sulphureous (comparative more sulphureous, superlative most sulphureous)
- (British, now rare) Sulphurous.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:
- An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:
Derived terms
- sulphureously
- sulphureousness