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Definition of Aridest
1. arid [adj] - See also: arid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aridest
Literary usage of Aridest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... the entire set of propensities at their command those that were certain to
construct, out of the materials given, the leanest, lowest, aridest result, ..."
2. Montaigne the Essayist: A Biography by Bayle St. John (1858)
"On returning, they talked much of the wonderful prospect of the lake, shut in by
the aridest mountains they had yet seen. Next day all their baggage was put ..."
3. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1897)
"He has seen enough of the range to catch some of its stock phrases, and he has
made a Mississippi of navigable words in the aridest land on earth —for stock ..."
4. Rides and Studies in the Canary Islands by Charles Edwardes (1888)
"We were in the aridest part of Tenerife—a land scorched by the sun throughout
the year, and with little or no soil over its rocks. ..."
5. Plain living and high thinking; or, Practical self-culture: moral, mental by William Henry Davenport Adams (1880)
"A man must have a great deal of time on his hands, and an extraordinary capacity
for digesting the aridest food, if he can read through the Philosophical ..."
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