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Estuous vs Aestiferous - What's the difference?

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Aestiferous is a related term of estuous.


Estuous is likely misspelled.


Estuous has no English definition.

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.

estuous

Not English

Estuous has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

aestiferous

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) * estiferous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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), page 28]
    ÆSTI?FEROUS [''æstifer
    , L. ebbing and flowing as the tide.
  • * 1859 : John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem , page 241 (John Penington & Son)
  • Thus they, estiferous , the hollow sphere
    Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.
  • (comparable, chiefly, used figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.
  • * 1979 : J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change , 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.

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