/ˈɹɔːɹɪd/
OriginFrom Latin rōridus, from rōs, rōris (“dew”).
- obsoleteDewy; containing dew.
“[…] as Phœbus throws
His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,
Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d
A loose and rorid vapour that is fit
T’ event his searching beams, and useth it
To for”
“Or, whether it be, as Aristotle thinketh, that the waters are conuerted into liquid, or rorid ayre, which is suckt in of the earth, by her magneticall thirst, and congealed into many dispersed small d”
“That the lentous drops upon it are not extraneous, and rather an exudation from itself, then a rorid concretion from without: beside other grounds, we have reason to conceive; for having kept the Root”
Formsmore rorid(comparative) · most rorid(superlative)