Tuesday, June 21, 2011

fossiliferous

via NYPL Digital Collections


Yow! It's the middle term (second of three adjectives) in both cases...

Melville, Moby-Dick
...to magnify him in an archaeological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.
"Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (August 1852): 510
—all by the light of your chronological, fossiliferous, infernal shell!

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