Adjective: basylous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more basylous |
| Superlative | most basylous |
Sample Sentences
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But suppose the hydrochloric acid to be mixed with a solution of sulphate of copper (the component atoms of which are likewise undergoing a change of place), the basylous elements, hydrogen and copper, then no longer limit their change of place to the circle of atoms with which they were at first combined[…] [1850, Thomas Graham, Elements of Chemistry, volume 2:]
Adjectives inflected like basylous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From basyle + -ous.