irriguous

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With sprightly step   The nymph alighted on the irriguous lawn,   And to her wondering audience thus began:—   'Lo!

From Poetical Works of Akenside by Gilfillan, George

It is academic and often tumid and wordy, abounding in Latinisms like effusive, precipitant, irriguous, horrific, turgent, amusive.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Shall we not censure all the motley train, Whether with ale irriguous, or champaign?

From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward

Where Milton describes how, in Paradise-- the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store; Thomson follows with-- See where the winding vale its lavish stores Irriguous spreads.

From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

Proud Missisippi, tamed and taught his road, Flings forth irriguous from his generous flood Ten thousand watery glades; that, round him curl'd, Vein the broad bosom of the western world.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel