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Definition of Mellifluent
1. a. Flowing as with honey; smooth; mellifluous.
Definition of Mellifluent
1. Adjective. mellifluous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mellifluent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mellifluent
Literary usage of Mellifluent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"While flows the juice mellifluent from the cane, Grudge not, my friend, to let
thy slaves, each morn, But chief the sick and young, ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"T. Warton, Prêt, to Milton's Smaller Poems. mellifluent (me-lif'lij-ent), a. ...
combines in one Each former bard's mellifluent tone. ..."
3. Debow's Review, Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress and Resources by R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1848)
"Mark we not the easy and graceful elocution, the mellifluent flow of fine turned
periods, which in the bon so well reproduced the honored Sire. ..."
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