exanguious

English

Etymology

From Latin exanguis.

Adjective

exanguious (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of exsanguious.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 162:

     The third is the paucitie of blood obſerved in this animal, ſcarce at all to be found but in the eye, and about the heart; which defect being obſerved, inclined ſome into thoughts, that the ayre was a ſufficient maintenance for theſe exauguious^[sic] parts.

References

• “exanguious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.