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English
Adjective
æruginous (comparative more æruginous, superlative most æruginous)
- Obsolete form of aeruginous.
1785, Thomas Marryat, Therapeutics; or, The Art of Healing, 7th edition, Birmingham: Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, , London, pages 35–36:Æruginous vomiting, ſpitting at the bye-ſtanders, gnaſhing or grinding of the teeth, or ſnatching at the bed-clothes, are the fore-runners of a diſſolution.