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Webster 1913 Edition
Pluvious
Plu′vi-ous
,Adj.
Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial.
Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pluvious
PLU'VIOUS
,Adj.
Definition 2024
pluvious
pluvious
English
Adjective
pluvious (comparative more pluvious, superlative most pluvious)
- Of or pertaining to the condition of heavy rain; rainy.
- Rachael sat by the fireplace one pluvious evening.
- 1440, Duke Humphrey, “Book VI May”, in Mark Harvey Liddel, editor, The Middle-English Translation of Palladius De Re Rustica, Berlin: E. Ebering, translation of De Re Rustica by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, published 1896, page 172:
- In places ouer colde And pluuyous, olyues is to done To kitte, and mosse awey be rased wolde.