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Definition of Flatuous
1. a. Windy; generating wind.
Definition of Flatuous
1. Adjective. (obsolete) windy; generating wind ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) generating flatulence ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flatuous
1. flatulent [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatuous
Literary usage of Flatuous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1837)
"One commodity, above the rest which are melancholy, these windy flatuous have —lucida
intervalla: their symptomes and pains are not usually so continuate as ..."
2. A Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland, from 1641 to 1652: Now for the by Sir John Thomas Gilbert, Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society (1880)
"And this flatuous humor filleth the emptie blader of his vaste thoughts with soe
much winde of pride, as he presumes that fortune, whoe hath once been his ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"9; naturally melancholy less than they, but once taken they are never freed;
though many are of opinion flatuous or hypochondriacal melancholy are most ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"... stomach in a small quantity doth digest and overcome (being not flatuous nor
loathsome) and so sendeth it to the mesentery veins ; and so being opening, ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"9 ; naturally melancholy less than they, but once taken they are never freed ;
though many are of opinion flatuous or hypochondriacal melancholy are most ..."
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