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meracious

meracious adjective: without mixture or adulteration; strong; racy.

Adjective

meracious (comparative more meracious, superlative most meracious)

  1. (obsolete) Without mixture or adulteration; strong; racy.
    • we must drink of the sweet, and it is well, if any thing be dulcy, and meracious enough for us; it must not onely take away thirst, but satisfie the taste, not onely refrigerate, but inebriate.1657, Thomas Reeve, God's plea for Nineveh
    • Her charms were now unfolded to my view, Meracious beauties, prottypes of grace;1820, The Pilgrim of the Rock, a Poem in Three Cantos, page 65

Forms of meracious

comparativemore meracious
superlativemost meracious

Origin of meracious

From Latin meracus, from merus (“pure, inmixed”).

Questions about meracious

What does meracious mean?
Meracious means without mixture or adulteration; strong; racy.
What part of speech is meracious?
Meracious is an adjective.

Words near meracious in the dictionary

  1. mer-creatures
  2. mer-mouse
  3. mer-wolf
  4. mer-wolves
  5. Mera
  6. meracious
  7. merafe
  8. Merag
  9. Merah
  10. Merah North
  11. Merahs

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