Favillous
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of or pertaining to ashes. obsolete, rare
"But of lower consideration is the common foretelling of strangers, from the fungous parcels about the weeks of Candles: which only signifieth a moist and pluvious ayre about them, hindering the avolation of the light and favillous particles; whereupon they are forced to settle upon the snast."
Example
More examples"But of lower consideration is the common foretelling of strangers, from the fungous parcels about the weeks of Candles: which only signifieth a moist and pluvious ayre about them, hindering the avolation of the light and favillous particles; whereupon they are forced to settle upon the snast."
Etymology
From Latin favilla (“sparkling or glowing ashes”) + -ous.
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