lutulent, a. ? Obs. exc. literary.
(ˈl(j)uːtjʊlənt)
[ad. L. lutulent-us, f. lutum mud.]
Muddy, turbid.
| c 1600 Timon ii. iv. (1842) 31 By what faulte or fate of mine (luculent, not lutulent Sergeants) shall I say [etc.]. 1614 T. Adams Devil's Banquet 17 The lutulent, spumy, maculatorie waters of Sinne. 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., The spleen, drawing thick lutulent and melancholick blood. 1755 in Johnson. [Hence in mod. Dicts.] 1922 Joyce Ulysses 377 Exterior splendour may be the surface of a downwardtending lutulent reality. |