irriguous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin irriguus, from in- + riguus (“watered”), from rigāre (“to wet”).
Adjective
[edit]irriguous (comparative more irriguous, superlative most irriguous)
- (archaic, poetic) Irrigated, well-watered.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks / Grasing the tender herb, were interpos'd, / Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap / Of som irriguous Valley spred her store […] .
- 1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- See, where the winding Vale its lavish Stores, / Irriguous, spreads.