Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Flowing with gall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Flowing with gall.
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- adjective rare Flowing with
gall .
Etymologies
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Latin fellifuus; fel gall + fluere to flow.
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Examples
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Truth never reveals itself either to the enthusiast smitten with his own reveries; to the fellifluous fanatic enslaved by his prejudices; to the vain glorious mortal puffed up with his own presumptuous ignorance; to the voluptuary devoted to his pleasures; or to the wily reasoner, who, disingenuous with himself, has a peculiar spontaneity to form illusions to his mind.
The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756
she commented on the word fellifluous
Flowing with gall (from Latin fel, gall + fluĕre, to flow).
August 8, 2008