Meaning of vapourous | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of vaporous.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“[W]e ſee that the very aire it ſelfe is never conglaciate nor frozen, nor hardened, conſidering that miſts, fogs and clouds are no congealations, but onely gatherings and thickenings of a moiſt and vapourous aire: for the true aire indeed vvhich hath no vapour at all and is altogether drie, admitteth no ſuch refrigeration as may alter it to that degree and heigth ^([sic]).”

“So vvhoſoeuer ſhall entertaine high and vapourous imaginations, in ſteede of a laborious and ſober inquiry of truth ſhall beget hopes and Beliefes of ſtrange and impoſſible ſhapes.”

“The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness, / The vapourous exultation not to be confined!”

“The wind began to rise⟳ and soon the vapourous mist began to eddy and whirl in wild confusion.”

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