absinthian

English

Alternative forms

• absinthean (rare, especially when meaning 'pertaining to absinthe')

Etymology

From absinth +‎ -ian.

Adjective

absinthian (comparative more absinthian, superlative most absinthian)

1. Of the nature of wormwood.
   • 1652, Thomas Randolph, Poems:

     Tempering absinthian bitterness with sweets

2. Of or pertaining to absinthe.
   • 1904, William Henry Rideing, How Tyson Came Home: A Story of England and America, page 70:

     The dim cavernous light depressed him, and the fish gaping and staring sluggishly in the tanks of absinthian green […]

   • 1908, Charles Robert Richet, The Pros and cons of vivisection, page 16:

     The unfortunate dog will, dur- during ten minutes, have had an attack of intoxication and absinthian epilepsy ; but at the end of an hour he will have recovered completely.

   • 1978, Thomas Merton, My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel, page 227:

     The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in the absinthian green of the Boulevard trees.

   • (?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995):

     [...] in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, [...]

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: absinttinen
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• Polish: absyntowy (pl)
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• Russian: полы́нный (ru) (polýnnyj)
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