a. [f. BRIMSTONE + -Y1.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling brimstone.
1382. Wyclif, Rev. ix. 17. Thei that saten on hem hadden fijry haberiouns, and iacynctines, and brunstony [1535 Coverd. of a yalowe and brymstony coloure].
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R. (Helmingham MS.), XIII. i. Yf þe grounde is brymstony, oþer of slyme.
1670. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Ess., 96. The sulphurous and brimstony matter.
1830. G. P. R. James, Darnley, xxii. 98/2. A sort of brimstony smell.
Hence Brimstoniness.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. xxxv. (1495), 249. Glaysynesse and brenstonynesse and other suche.
