absinthian

English

absinthian(comparativemoreabsinthian,superlativemostabsinthian)

Of the nature ofwormwood.
- 1652,Thomas Randolph,Poems:
  Temperingabsinthianbitterness with sweets
Of or pertaining toabsinthe.
- 1904,William Henry Rideing,How Tyson Came Home: A Story of England and America,page70:
  The dim cavernous light depressed him, and the fish gaping and staring sluggishly in the tanks ofabsinthiangreen[…]
- 1908,Charles Robert Richet,The Pros and cons of vivisection,page16:
  The unfortunate dog will, dur- during ten minutes, have had an attack of intoxication andabsinthianepilepsy; but at the end of an hour he will have recovered completely.
- 1978,Thomas Merton,My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel,page227:
  The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in theabsinthiangreen of the Boulevard trees.
- (?), quoted in theReview of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry(1990 and 1995):
  [...] in the dazed course of anabsinthianstupor, [...]