effluviant

English

Adjective

effluviant (comparative more effluviant, superlative most effluviant)

1. Of or pertaining to effluvium.
2. Offensively smelly.
   • "A formal idea of the heaven and the earth may be obtained by imagining the heaven as at first an effluviant generation from a mono central point, occupying, or creating and occupying space; the earth, as the airiest or end of such generative action, with the gradual relaxation of central tension and abnegation of such centre, the consequence being the formation of a huge internal spherical vacuity, termed in the genetic record 'earth.'" ("Clear as Mud," Richmond Daily Dispatch [1],Sept. 11, 1863