exanguious

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A form of exsanguious — Destitute of blood; bloodless.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveexanguious (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of exsanguious.

    The third is the paucitie of blood obſerved in this animal, ſcarce at all to be found but in the eye, and about the heart; which defect being obſerved, inclined ſome into thoughts, that the ayre was a ſufficient maintenance for theſe exauguious^([sic]) parts.

    1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 162

Origin

  1. Latinexanguis
  2. Englishexanguious

From Latin exanguis.

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