pilulous
English
Etymology
Latin pilula (“a pill”) + -ous.
Adjective
pilulous (comparative more pilulous, superlative most pilulous)
- Resembling a pill or pilule.
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter II, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829, book I, page 29:
- Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?
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