Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteBelonging to a garden.
Of the Hortulan Elaboratory, and of distilling and extracting of Waters
1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC1 more example
The remaining heavenly bodies also, though situated for the most part at a great distance, poured down on Watt, and on the hortulan beauties through which he moved, […] a light so strong, so pure, so steady and so white, that his progress, though painful, and uncertain, was less painful, less uncertain, than he had apprehended, when setting out.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
Origin
- Latinhortulanus
- Englishhortulan
From Latin hortulanus, from hortus (“garden”). Doublet of ortolan.
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