Obs. rare. [f. L. torrēnt-em TORRENT + -INE1.] (See quots.)
1656. Blount, Glossogr. Torrentine, belonging to, or abiding in torrents, or swift and violent streames.
1864. in Webster; and in later Dicts.
1874. Mendocino Democrat, 18 July, 2/1. Our friends from old ‘Pike’ who have seen the old river [the Mississippi] in its torrentine boisterousness.
1875. J. C. Hutcheson, in Belgravia, XXV. Feb., 501. Swelled from the tiny ocean-drop which marked its aboriginal commencement more than three hundred years ago to its present torrentine proportions, and bearing away often entire nationalities on its bosom.
