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mollitious

mollitious adjective: sensuous or luxurious.

Adjective

mollitious (comparative more mollitious, superlative most mollitious)

  1. (obsolete) sensuous or luxurious.
    • Whenas the dainty and mollitious aire Had bid the Lady of the Palace, share In her refined pleasures, […]1629, Francis Quarles, “Argalus and Parthenia”, in Alexander B. Grosart, editor, The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Francis Quarles: Verse: Elegiacal poems. Emblems and hieroglyphikes. The...
    • Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest, bring forth no other fruits but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and phlegmatic conceits?c1644, Francis Quarles, “The Lascivious Man. His Heaven.”, in Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introduction...

Forms of mollitious

comparativemore mollitious
superlativemost mollitious

Origin of mollitious

From Latin mollities (“mollitiēs”) + English -ous.

Questions about mollitious

What does mollitious mean?
Mollitious means sensuous or luxurious.
What part of speech is mollitious?
Mollitious is an adjective.

Words near mollitious in the dictionary

  1. mollisher
  2. mollishers
  3. mollisol
  4. mollisols
  5. mollities ossium
  6. mollitious
  7. mollitude
  8. molliturbel
  9. molliturbels
  10. Mollo
  11. Mollohan

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