Definition of "pilulous" []

• Resembling a pill or pilula. (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "'Has any one,' asks George Eliot, in 'Middlemarch,' 'ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintance?'"
• "Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of prematrimonial acquaintanceship?"
• "Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre - matrimonial acquaintanceship?"