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Æstiʹferous [''æstifer , l] ebbing and flowing as the tide.
(obsolete, not comparable) “Turbulent]] as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.An Universal Etymological English Dictionary'' by [[w:Nathan Bailey, Nathan Bailey (1731),
ÆSTI?FEROUS [''æstifer , L. ebbing and flowing as the tide.
* 1859 : John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem ,
(comparable, chiefly, used figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.
* 1979 : J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change ,
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
As an adjective aestiferous
is (obsolete|not comparable) “turbulent]] as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”an universal etymological english dictionary'' by [[w:nathan bailey|nathan bailey (1731), [http://booksgooglecouk/books?id=o-giaaaaqaaj&pg=pt28&dq=%22ebbing+and+flowing+as+the+tide%22&ei=-ooosuoeiafuygtlkuhcbw#v=onepage&q=%22ebbing%20and%20flowing%20as%20the%20tide%22&f=false page 28]Æstiʹferous [''æstifer , l] ebbing and flowing as the tide.
As a noun taxonomy is
the science or the technique used to make a classification.aestiferous
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * estiferousAdjective
(en adjective)page 28]
ÆSTI?FEROUS [''æstifer , L. ebbing and flowing as the tide.
page 241(John Penington & Son)
- Thus they, estiferous , the hollow sphere
Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.
page 148(Southern Illinois University Press; ISBN 0809309149, 9780809309146)
- 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.