altitudinous
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Example from Joyce: ''The Ondt was a welltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs.
From Time Magazine Archive
No altitudinous conversation of the kind that grows no crops.
From Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer
Of course, some persons really are affected by altitude, but weariness, lack of muscular as well as mental control, often creates altitudinous illusion.
From A Mountain Boyhood by Enos B. (Enos Benjamin) Comstock
"It is not that the temperature is excessively altitudinous," responded the Parson, "but the presence of a larger proportion of humidity retards perspiratory exudation."
From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Upton Sinclair
