irriguous

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It is academic and often tumid and wordy, abounding in Latinisms like effusive, precipitant, irriguous, horrific, turgent, amusive.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Where Milton describes how, in Paradise-- the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store; Thomson follows with-- See where the winding vale its lavish stores Irriguous spreads.

From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

Proud Missisippi, tamed and taught his road, Flings forth irriguous from his generous flood Ten thousand watery glades; that, round him curl'd, Vein the broad bosom of the western world.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

With sprightly step   The nymph alighted on the irriguous lawn,   And to her wondering audience thus began:—   'Lo!

From Poetical Works of Akenside by Gilfillan, George

When noon advanc'd, Sol's downward rays Shedding intolerable blaze, Compel the Labourers' retreat, To shelter from the fervent heat; The copse that skirts the irriguous mead Affords a welcome cooling shade.

From An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects by Bloomfield, Nathaniel