[ad. L. ēbullient-em, pr. pple. of ēbullīre; see prec.]
1. That boils; boiling; agitated, as if boiling.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 4/1. Let this bottle remayne one hovver in hot ebullient vvater.
1814. Cary, Dante (1871), 304. Every cirque Ebullient shot forth scintillating fires.
1842. G. P. Scrope, Volcanos, 14. Lava in a liquid and ebullient state.
2. a. Of the humours of the body: Agitated, hot, effervescent. b. Of drugs and diseases: Causing heat and agitation.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, iv. 82. The same is of an hot and ebullient nature. Ibid. (1650), viii. 157. They engender ebullient humors.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 226/2. The body is affected with this Fever, as if some part were put in boiling water, wherefore some have called this the Ebullient Ague.
1727. Swift, Gulliver, II. III. vi. 82. Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundent, ebullient, and other pecant Humours.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., VIII. 1320. They scarce can swallow their ebullient spleen.
3. fig. Of energy, feelings, influences: Gushing forth like boiling water; bubbling over, overflowing, enthusiastic. Constr. with.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., vii. 126. That fountain of life which ought to be ebullient in every Regenerate Christian.
1828. Southey, Ess. (1832), I. 352. The general and ebullient feeling with which all Britain overflowed imposed silence upon the lying lips.
1844. Blackw. Mag., LVI. 532. His commentaries on the past are ebullient with subtlety.
1876. G. P. Lathrop, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXIII. 429. The ebullient undulating prose style of the poet.
Hence Ebulliently adv.
1887. Punch, 10 Sept., 110. Ebulliently sentimental novelist.
