Meanings
adjectiveresiduous (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparableRemaining; residual.
above the violence of war and of the tempest, above all that is residuous of a wasted world
1829, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume IV (second series, volume I), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinresiduus
- Englishresiduous
Latin residuus.
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