absinthian

English

Alternative forms

absinthean (rare, especially when meaning 'pertaining to absinthe')

Etymology

absinth +‎ -ian

Adjective

absinthian (comparative more absinthian, superlative most absinthian)

Of the nature of wormwood.
- 1652, Thomas Randolph, Poems:
  Tempering absinthian bitterness with sweets
Of or pertaining to absinthe.
- 1904, William Henry Rideing, How Tyson Came Home: A Story of England and America, page 70:
  The dim cavernous light depressed him, and the fish gaping and staring sluggishly in the tanks of absinthian green […]
- 1908, Charles Robert Richet, The Pros and cons of vivisection, page 16:
  The unfortunate dog will, dur- during ten minutes, have had an attack of intoxication and absinthian epilepsy ; but at the end of an hour he will have recovered completely.
- 1978, Thomas Merton, My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel, page 227:
  The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in the absinthian green of the Boulevard trees.
- (?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995):
  [...] in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, [...]

单词	absinthian
释义	absinthian English Alternative forms absinthean (rare, especially when meaning 'pertaining to absinthe') Etymology absinth +‎ -ian Adjective absinthian (comparative more absinthian, superlative most absinthian) Of the nature of wormwood. 1652, Thomas Randolph, Poems: Tempering absinthian bitterness with sweets Of or pertaining to absinthe. 1904, William Henry Rideing, How Tyson Came Home: A Story of England and America, page 70: The dim cavernous light depressed him, and the fish gaping and staring sluggishly in the tanks of absinthian green […] 1908, Charles Robert Richet, The Pros and cons of vivisection, page 16: The unfortunate dog will, dur- during ten minutes, have had an attack of intoxication and absinthian epilepsy ; but at the end of an hour he will have recovered completely. 1978, Thomas Merton, My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel, page 227: The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in the absinthian green of the Boulevard trees. (?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995): [...] in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, [...]
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