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Definition of Drossy

1. a. Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless.

Definition of Drossy

1. Adjective. worthless ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drossy

1. worthless [adj DROSSIER, DROSSIEST] - See also: worthless

Medical Definition of Drossy

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, dross; full of dross; impure; worthless. " Drossy gold." . "Drossy rhymes." . Dross"iness. Origin: Drossier; Drossiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Drossy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... in Burgundy aforesaid; he the second time refined the drossy Benedictines, and Walter Espec first established their brotherhood in England, ..."

2. Erasmus in Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (1876)
"golden age began by degrees to degenerate into more drossy metals, then were arts likewise invented ; yet at first but few in number, and those rarely ..."

3. Erasmus in Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (1876)
"golden age began by degrees to degenerate into more drossy metals, then were arts likewise invented ; yet at first but few in number, and those rarely ..."

4. GTropología: a key to open Scripture metaphors [by B. Keach and T. Delaune by Benjamin Keach (1858)
"And Christ, by refining and patting tho whole Church into the furnace, separates the gold, the sincere Christiana from the drossy hypocrites. SIMILE. VIII. ..."

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