Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Remaining; residual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Remaining; residual.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Remaining;
residual .
Etymologies
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Latin residuus.
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Examples
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Greatness is to goodness what gravel is to porphyry: the one is a movable accumulation, swept along the surface of the earth; the other stands fixed and solid and alone, above the violence of war and of the tempest; above all that is residuous of a wasted world.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819
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