Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of juice or sap; dry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of juice; dry; sapless.
Latham .
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- adjective Without
juice orsap .
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Examples
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Wherein Christians, who deck their coffins with bays, have found a more elegant emblem; for that it, seeming dead, will restore itself from the root, and its dry and exsuccous leaves resume their verdure again; which, if we mistake not, we have also observed in furze.
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Most men expected to find a consumed kell,10 empty and bladder-like guts, livid and marbled lungs, and a withered pericardium in this exsuccous corpse: but some seemed too much to wonder that two lobes of his lungs adhered unto his side; for the like I have often found in bodies of no suspected consumptions or difficulty of respiration.
Letter to a Friend 2007
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Most men expected to find a consumed kell, [III. 10] empty and bladder-like guts, livid and marbled lungs, and a withered pericardium in this exsuccous corpse: but some seemed too much to wonder that two lobes of his lungs adhered unto his side; for the like I have often found in bodies of no suspected consumptions or difficulty of respiration.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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Wherein Christians, who deck their coffins with bays, have found a more elegant emblem; for that it, seeming dead, will restore itself from the root, and its dry and exsuccous leaves resume their verdure again; which, if we mistake not, we have also observed in furze.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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