ustorious
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin urere, ustum (“to burn”).
Adjective[edit]
ustorious (comparative more ustorious, superlative most ustorious)
- (obsolete) Having the quality of burning.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
- And I should tell him , it is by an ustorious quality in the mirror or glass , and by a cleaving power in the wedge , arising from a certain unknown substantial form in them , whence they derive these qualities
References[edit]
“ustorious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.