Vocabulary Word
Word: ebullient
Definition: showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; boiling; N. ebullience; N. ebullition: state of boiling
Definition: showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; boiling; N. ebullience; N. ebullition: state of boiling
Sentences Containing 'ebullient'
It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
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