luteously
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luteously (comparative more luteously, superlative most luteously)
- (rare, literary) In a luteous manner.
- 1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, page 337:
- THough Coriander be a tetrous and graveolent herb, yet is it ſowen and cultivated in Gardens; for its grains by frication depoſe their ingratefull odour, and become ſuaveolent; its ſurcle is very ſlender, round, cubitall, and ramous; its leafes are at firſt like them of Adiantum, laciniated and variouſly incided, for the part next the caul, is leſſe ſected, the remoter, more; its flowers are white on large umbells; its ſeed made round, firme, ſomwhat ſtriated, and inane, which at firſt is green, then luteouſly white, its root ſhort, hard and fibrous; the odour of its leafes is putrid and tetrous.
- 1922, Alfred Budd, The Oxford Circus: A Novel of Oxford and Youth, London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited […], page 103:
- With no eyes for the evasive beauty of the college chapel, its buttresses and architraves now luteously entwined with wreathes of yellow fog, he crossed the dusk-filled quadrangle towards Mongo’s lighted window, puzzled a little. . . .
- 1934, The Philippine Journal of Science, volume 54, Manila: Bureau of Printing, page 298:
- Black, densely luteously pilose, rostrum nearly cylindrical, about one-third shorter than the prothorax, at the base higher than broad and wider than in front, moderately densely punctate, sides in the basal half punctate-striate.
- 2015, Cynder, BD Nostalgia 1: Fanfic X-Men: A New Beginning:
- Her yellow eyes glowed luteously in the dark light near them.