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Definition of "fumid" [fu•mid]

  • Smoky, vaporous. (adjective)

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Use "fumid" in a sentence
  • "First below the circular motion comes the warm and dry element, which we call fire, for there is no word fully adequate to every state of the fumid evaporation: but we must use this terminology since this element is the most inflammable of all bodies."
  • "All writers incline to refer odour to this cause [sc. exhalation of some sort], but some regard it as aqueous, others as fumid, exhalation; while others, again, hold it to be either."
  • "Aqueous exhalation is merely a form of moisture, but fumid exhalation is, as already remarked, composed of Air and Earth."
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