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æstiferous

æstiferous is the obsolete spelling of aestiferous.

Meaning of aestiferous

Adjective

aestiferous (comparative more aestiferous, superlative most aestiferous)

  1. (not comparable, obsolete) As the tide, turbulent; ebbing and flowing.
    • Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
      Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)
  2. (comparable, figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.
    • 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.1979, J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 148, →ISBN

Forms of æstiferous

comparativemore æstiferous
superlativemost æstiferous

Questions about æstiferous

What is æstiferous the obsolete spelling of?
Æstiferous is the obsolete spelling of aestiferous.

Words near æstiferous in the dictionary

  1. æstheticizes
  2. æstheticizing
  3. æsthetics
  4. æsthetology
  5. æstho-physiology
  6. æstiferous
  7. æstimate
  8. æstimates
  9. æstimation
  10. æstimations
  11. æstival

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æstiferous (page history and authors); aestiferous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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