Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Becoming or tending to become liquid; melting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a tendency to liquefy; melting; becoming liquid: as, a substance naturally liquescent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt; melting.
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- adjective
melting
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- adjective becoming liquid
Etymologies
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Examples
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A special modification of the neum form is that which is called liquescent or semivocal.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Fitzpiers did not stay more than an hour, but that time had apparently advanced his sentiments towards Grace, once and for all, from a vaguely liquescent to an organic shape.
The Woodlanders 2006
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From the whole, soft, liquescent fluid scene, the impression which I derived was melancholy.
Through Russia 2003
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The Molokans also had kindled a blaze behind the corner of the barraque, and now its glow was licking the yellow boards of the structure until they seemed almost to be liquescent, to be about to dissolve and flow over the ground in a golden stream.
Through Russia 2003
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A few had burst open, and were liquescent with decay.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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And ever the river was growing rougher and ruder; ever its backbone was beginning to puiver and flounder like a whale underfoot, with its liquescent body of cold, grey, murky water bursting with increasing frequency from its shell of ice, and lapping hungrily at our feet.
Through Russia 2003
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Instead, however, of listening to the sermons, Burton got flirting with a Meccan girl with citrine skin and liquescent eyes.
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He slumped in a motionless, nearly liquescent heap.
Zehru of Xollar Hal K. Wells
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Mr Gulching, outwardly frigid but inwardly liquescent, agrees that this is so; and adds in a truculent growl that he would like to see 'em try it on.
The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914
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On palma the MS. gives a liquescent note, on the first syllable of adnunciandum it has a podatus (a c, or d f, as this notation should be read a fifth lower) instead of a single note; in the last, a podatus instead of an epiphonus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
birdlime commented on the word liquescent
from the tropic of cancer, which i never finished
December 7, 2006
myth commented on the word liquescent
And now, as the night was senescent
And star-dials pointed to morn -
As the star-dials hinted of morn -
At the end of our path a liquescent
And nebulous lustre was born,
Out of which a miraculous crescent
Arose with a duplicate horn -
Astarte's bediamonded crescent
Distinct with its duplicate horn. - Ulalume - Poe
March 8, 2009