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aestiferous

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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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 figurative) Producing much (aestival) heat.[3]
    • 1979, J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 148, →ISBN:
      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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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “†æˈstiferous, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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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