Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A deluge or an inundation; an overflowing.
- noun Coarse detrital material, wherever found: a term introduced into geology in consequence of a general belief in the past occurrence of a universal deluge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.
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- noun An
inundation orflood . - noun geology A deposit of
sand ,gravel , etc. made byoceanic flooding .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Connected with the diluvium is the history of ossiferous caverns, of which specimens singly exist at Kirkdale in Yorkshire, Gailenreuth in
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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In the form and direction of the horns, these famous wild white oxen seem to be living {2} representatives of the race whose bones are found in a fossil state in England and some parts of the Continent in the "diluvium" bone-caves, mixed with the bones of bears, hyenas, and other wild animals, now the cotemporaries of the Bos Gour, or Asiatic Ox, upon mountainous slopes of Western India.
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Sufficient grounds exist for the assumption that man coexisted with the animals found in the 'diluvium'; and many a barbarous race may, before all historical time, have disappeared, together with the animals of the ancient world, whilst the races whose organization is improved have continued the genus.
On Some Fossil Remains of Man Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Sufficient grounds exist for the assumption that man coexisted with the animals found in the 'diluvium'; and many a barbarous race may, before all historical time, have disappeared, together with the animals of the ancient world, whilst the races whose organization is improved have continued the genus.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The term "diluvium," now obsolete in Britain but still lingering on the Continent, is equivalent to Pleistocene.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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"diluvium," to prove the former co-existence of man with certain extinct mammalia.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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No better example can be found of his anti-diluvium attitudes about life than his totally predictable rants about baseball.
George Will is still ranting a rant that has been ranted for 50 years. Ann Althouse 2009
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"Along the western base the range diluvium is accumulated in large quantities but in general this formation is not as abundant to the west as to the east of Connecticut river." link
Geological Definition of the Day (#4) ReBecca Foster 2008
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"Along the western base the range diluvium is accumulated in large quantities but in general this formation is not as abundant to the west as to the east of Connecticut river." link
Archive 2008-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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That it was beyond doubt that these human relics were traceable to a period at which the latest animals of the diluvium still existed; but that no proof of this assumption, nor consequently of their so-termed ‘fossil’ condition, was afforded by the circumstances under which the bones were discovered.
Essays 2007
hernesheir commented on the word diluvium
Railroad telegraph shorthand notation meaning "10:45 p.m. yesterday." --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906, p. 177.
January 21, 2013