aestiferous

See also: æstiferous

English

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Etymology

From Latin aestus (“heat”, “tide”) + English -ferous (“bearing”, “bringing”) (from Latin ferō (“I bear”, “I carry”)).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

aestiferous (comparative more aestiferous, superlative most aestiferous)

  1. (obsolete, not comparable)[1] “Turbulent as the tide”;[2] “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.[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 used figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.[3]
    • 1979: J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, page 148 (Southern Illinois University Press; →ISBN, 9780809309146)
      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. “†æˈstiferous, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  2. 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. 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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