different between estuate vs aestiferous

English

Etymology

From Latin aestuare (“to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn”), from aestus (“boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat”), akin to Ancient Greek [Term?] (“to burn”). See ether.

Verb

estuate (third-person singular simple present estuates, present participle estuating, simple past and past participle estuated)

1. (transitive) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
   • 1614, Francis Bacon, speech […] [about the] Undertakers

     these vapours were not gone up to the head , howsoever they might glow and estuate in the body

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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