Estuation vs Aestiferous - What's the difference?
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ÆSTIʹFEROUS [æstifer, L.] ebbing and flowing as the tide.
The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.
(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 ,
Aestiferous is a related term of estuation.
As a noun estuation
is the act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation.As an adjective aestiferous is
“Turbulent as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.An Universal Etymological English Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1731),ÆSTIʹFEROUS [æstifer, L.] ebbing and flowing as the tide.
estuation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The estuations of joys and fears. — W. Montagu.
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.