Luteously
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In a luteous manner. literary, rare
"THough Coriander be a tetrous and graveolent herb, yet is it ſowen and cultivated in Gardens; for its grains by frication depoſe their ingratefull odour, and become ſuaveolent; its ſurcle is very ſlender, round, cubitall, and ramous; its leafes are at firſt like them of Adiantum, laciniated and variouſly incided, for the part next the caul, is leſſe ſected, the remoter, more; its flowers are white on large umbells; its ſeed made round, firme, ſomwhat ſtriated, and inane, which at firſt is green, then luteouſly white, its root ſhort, hard and fibrous; the odour of its leafes is putrid and tetrous."
Example
More examples"THough Coriander be a tetrous and graveolent herb, yet is it ſowen and cultivated in Gardens; for its grains by frication depoſe their ingratefull odour, and become ſuaveolent; its ſurcle is very ſlender, round, cubitall, and ramous; its leafes are at firſt like them of Adiantum, laciniated and variouſly incided, for the part next the caul, is leſſe ſected, the remoter, more; its flowers are white on large umbells; its ſeed made round, firme, ſomwhat ſtriated, and inane, which at firſt is green, then luteouſly white, its root ſhort, hard and fibrous; the odour of its leafes is putrid and tetrous."
Etymology
From luteous + -ly.
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