pilulous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin pilula (“a pill”) + -ous.
Adjective
[edit]pilulous (comparative more pilulous, superlative most pilulous)
- Resembling a pill or pilule.
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter II, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 29:
- Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?