sabulous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin sabulosus, from sabulum (“sand”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
sabulous (comparative more sabulous, superlative most sabulous)
- Sandy or gritty.
- 1632, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Aduentures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Trauayles, from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Nicholas Fussell and Humphery Mosley […], page 254:
- This Lake is foure ſcore miles in length, and according to its interualling Circuite, ſometimes two, three, foure, or fiue miles in breadth: yet the body thereof, bending directly South-weſt; keepeth a glaſſie courſe, till it ſalute the auſtiere conſpicuoſity of the ſabulous and ſtony Deſarts: […]
- 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 16:
- ...or fills up the tubular vessels there with sabulous matter.
- 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 166:
- The patient perspired frequently and freely, ceased to take nourishment, and was taken with vomiting; the urine became sabulous, the sleep was agitated, the dyspnœa and the palpitations augmented, and he died the 2d of January.