v. nonce-wd. [f. Vesuvi-us: see VESUVIAN.] intr. Of weather: To be very hot.
1872. Ilfracombe Chron., 25 May, 7/3. A new verb to express the sudden access of heat in the atmosphere has been invented—‘It Vesuviates!’
a. 1876. M. Collins, Th. in Gard. (1880), I. 166. It vesuviates. This sudden heat in the atmosphere has something to do with the eruption of the mountain which killed Pliny the Elder.
