fellifluous
fellifluous adjective: flowing with bile or gall.
Adjective
fellifluous (comparative more fellifluous, superlative most fellifluous)
- Flowing with bile or gall.
- Truth never reveals itself either to the enthusiast smitten with his own reveries; to the fellifluous fanatic enslaved by his prejudices; to the vain glorious mortal puffed up with his own presumptuous ignorance […]1795, Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, translated by William Hodgson, The System of Nature: Or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World
- Its claws scratch at the back of his eyeballs and cause him to see visions, to shriek with fevers, to choke in the embrace of fetid and fellifluous chimeras […]1924, Ben Hecht, The Kingdom of Evil: A Continuation of the Journal of Fantazius Mallare, page 48
Examples of fellifluous in a sentence
- The disease of cholera, according to some, derives its name from the flow of bile that takes place from mouth and bowels, cholera being, so to speak, ‘the fellifluous disease.’1950 [5th century CE], Caelius Aurelianus, translated by I. E. Drabkin, On Acute Diseases and On Chronic Diseases, page 417:
- Behind a counter two young women, both evidently Asian, served a queue including a tipsy fellifluous Irishman.2007, Dannie Abse, The Presence, →ISBN, page 150:
- What could ever be termed defeatist or pessimistic – what could ever be called fellifluous – about such ideas?2022, Pierre Legrand, Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought, →ISBN, page 375:
Forms of fellifluous
| comparative | more fellifluous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fellifluous |
Origin of fellifluous
From Latin fellifluus, from fel (“gall”) + fluere (“to flow”).
Questions about fellifluous
- What does fellifluous mean?
- Fellifluous means flowing with bile or gall.
- How do you use fellifluous in a sentence?
- The disease of cholera, according to some, derives its name from the flow of bile that takes place from mouth and bowels, cholera being, so to speak, ‘the fellifluous disease.’
- What part of speech is fellifluous?
- Fellifluous is an adjective.
Words near fellifluous in the dictionary
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