brimstony
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English brunstony, brimstoni, equivalent to brimstone + -y.
Adjective[edit]
brimstony (comparative more brimstony, superlative most brimstony)
- Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous.
- 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- King of Thogarma, and his Habergions Brimstony, blue, and fiery
References[edit]
- “brimstony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.