different between estivation vs aestiferous

English

Noun

estivation (countable and uncountable, plural estivations)

1. Alternative spelling of aestivation
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building

     On the under story , towards the garden , let it be turned to a grotto , or place of shade , or estivation

Anagrams

• anti-Soviet, antisoviet, evitations, novitiates

French

Pronunciation

Noun

estivation f (plural estivations)

1. estivation

Further reading

• “estivation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) æstiferous
• estiferous

Etymology

From Latin aestus (“heat”, “tide”) + English -ferous (“bearing”, “bringing”) (from Latin fer? (“I bear”, “I carry”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?st??f?r?s, IPA^(key): /?s?t?f???s/

Adjective

aestiferous (comparative more aestiferous, superlative most aestiferous)

1. (obsolete, not comparable) “Turbulent as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.
   • 1859: John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem, page 241 (John Penington & Son)

     Thus they, estiferous, the hollow sphere
     Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.

2. (comparable, chiefly used figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.
   • 1979: J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change, page 148 (Southern Illinois University Press; ?ISBN, 9780809309146)

     Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.

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