effluviant

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English

Adjective

effluviant (comparative more effluviant, superlative most effluviant)

  1. Of or pertaining to effluvium.
  2. Offensively smelly.
    • "A formal idea of the heaven and the earth may be obtained by imagining the heaven as at first an effluviant generation from a mono central point, occupying, or creating and occupying space; the earth, as the airiest or end of such generative action, with the gradual relaxation of central tension and abnegation of such centre, the consequence being the formation of a huge internal spherical vacuity, termed in the genetic record 'earth.'" ("Clear as Mud," Richmond Daily Dispatch ,Sept. 11, 1863