mollitious

comparative more mollitious · superlative most mollitious

1. obsoletesensuous or luxurious.

   Whenas the dainty and mollitious aire Had bid the Lady of the Palace, share In her refined pleasures, […]

   1629, Francis Quarles, “Argalus and Parthenia”, in Alexander B. Grosart, editor, The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Francis Quarles: Verse: Elegiacal poems. Emblems and hieroglyphikes. The shepheards oracles. Argalus and Parthenia. The virgin widow. Notes and illustrations. Glossarial index, etc., volume 3, Lancashire: Printed for private circulation, published 1881, page 245

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   Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest, bring forth no other fruits but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and phlegmatic conceits?

   c1644, Francis Quarles, “The Lascivious Man. His Heaven.”, in Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introduction by Reginalde Wolfe, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, published 1807, page 111

   And here in snowy birdskin robes they are, Sordello, here, mollitious alcoves gilt Superb as Byzant-domes that devils built — Ah, Byzant, there again !

   1840, Robert Browning, “Book The Third”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, page 92