lacteous
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nonlacteous adjective
Etymology
Origin of lacteous
Example Sentences
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Archesilaus, the physician, whose favourite and disciple Socrates was, said that men and beasts were formed of a lacteous slime, expressed by the heat of the earth.
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Lacteous -eus: white, with a slight bluish tinge, like skim-milk.
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Look contentedly upon the scattered difference of things, and expect not equality in lustre, dignity, or perfection, in regions or persons below; where numerous numbers must be content to stand like lacteous or nebulous stars, little taken notice of, or dim in their generations.
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There were plenty of professors who were forever assiduously browsing in vales of Enna and on Pentelican slopes among the vestiges of antiquity, slowly secreting lacteous facts, and not one of them would have raised his head from that exquisite pasturage, though Pan had made music through his pipe of reeds.
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Adj. semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose†; half melted, half frozen; milky, muddy &c. n.; lacteal, lactean†, lacteous†, lactescent†, lactiferous†; emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous†. gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous†, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky, gooey; slab, slabby†; lentous†, pituitous†; mucid†, muculent†, mucous; gummy.
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