Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Remaining; residual.

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

  • adjective Remaining; residual.

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  • adjective archaic Remaining; residual.

Etymologies

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Latin residuus.

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Examples

  • Greatness is to goodness what gravel is to porphyry: the one is a movable accumulation, swept along the surface of the earth; the other stands fixed and solid and alone, above the violence of war and of the tempest; above all that is residuous of a wasted world.

    Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

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