ustorious

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin urere, ustum (to burn).

Adjective

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ustorious (comparative more ustorious, superlative most ustorious)

  1. (obsolete) Having the quality of burning.
    • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, [], 2nd edition, London: [] John Clark and Richard Hett, [], Emanuel Matthews, [], and Richard Ford, [], published 1726, →OCLC:
      And I should tell him , it is by an ustorious quality in the mirror or glass , and by a cleaving power in the wedge , arising from a certain unknown substantial form in them , whence they derive these qualities

References

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