Definition of "vapoury" []

• Characteristic of vapour (adjective)

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• "Into nullity winds far to remove, vapoury clouds to bear."
• "How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them; what is the nature of all sensible things, and particularly those which attract with the bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad by vapoury fame; how worthless, and contemptible, and sordid, and perishable, and dead they are — all this it is the part of the intellectual faculty to observe."
• "Western minds who follow the Eastern way become weak and vapoury, because unfit for the work forced upon them by Western life."