residuous

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English

Etymology

Latin residuus.

Adjective

residuous (not comparable)

(archaic) Remaining; residual.
- 1829, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume IV (second series, volume I), London: James Duncan, , →OCLC:
  above the violence of war and of the tempest, above all that is residuous of a wasted world

References

“residuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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