Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Stormy; tempestuous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Stormy.

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  • adjective archaic stormy

Etymologies

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French orageux.

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Examples

  • M. d'Ivry, whose early life may have been rather oragious, was yet a gentleman perfectly well conserved.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • M. d’Ivry, whose early life may have been rather oragious, was yet a gentleman perfectly well conserved.

    The Newcomes 2006

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  • oragious a stormy word

    January 13, 2007