a. Obs. [see -UOUS.] = COMBUSTIOUS.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxii. (1632), 1120. The King but a child, the Nobles at variances, and the combustuous Commons obedient to Neither.

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16[?].  Time’s Storehouse, 922 (L.). That matters should be thus combustuous in the Indies.

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