sulphureous
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From Latin sulphureus, sulfureus.
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sulphureous (comparative more sulphureous, superlative most sulphureous)
- (British spelling, now rare) Sulphurous.
- 1754, Robert Dodsley, Public Virtue, page 46:
- Thy blazing hearths, / From deep sulphureous pits, consumeless stores / Of fuel boast.
- 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 236:
- The plain of Naples is the image of human passions; sulphureous and fertile; its dangers and its pleasures seem born of these fiery volcanoes, which give the air so many charms, and cause the thunderbolt to growl beneath our feet.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:
- An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all.