sulphureous

English

Alternative forms

• sulfureous

Etymology

From Latin sulphureus, sulfureus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sʌlˈf(j)ɔːɹɪəs/

Adjective

sulphureous (comparative more sulphureous, superlative most sulphureous)

1. (British spelling, now rare) Sulphurous.
   • 1754, Robert Dodsley, Public Virtue, page 46:

     Thy blazing hearths, / From deep sulphureous pits, consumeless stores / Of fuel boast.

   • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 236:

     The plain of Naples is the image of human passions; sulphureous and fertile; its dangers and its pleasures seem born of these fiery volcanoes, which give the air so many charms, and cause the thunderbolt to growl beneath our feet.

   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:

     An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all.

Derived terms

• sulphureously
• sulphureousness