a. Obs. Also 5 sulphuryose, 6 sulph-, sulfurius, 8 sulphrious. [ad. OF. sulphurieux or L. *sulphuriōsus: see SULPHUR sb. and -IOUS.] = SULPHUREOUS, SULPHUROUS.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., VIII. vii. in Ashm. (1652), 172. [That] hys fatnys sulphuryose Be mynyshyd in hym whych ys infectuose.
c. 1550. Rolland, Crt. Venus, I. 833. Ouirset with slicht sulphurious, And suddant mort. Ibid. (1560), Seven Sages, 38. O suttell Serpent sulphurius.
1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., V. iii. (Qo. 1600). Spare no sulphurious [ed. 1616 sulphurous] jeast that may come out of that sweatie Forge of thine.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. iii. III. i. 268. At Lypara and those sulphurious Isles.
1627. H. Burton, Baiting Pope’s Bull, 13. That Canon of Trent, which dischargeth a sulphurious Anathema against the doctrine.
1631. Gouge, God’s Arrows, I. § 23. 30. Even on a sudden was that faire skie turned into a sulphurious and most dismall skie.
1683. Digby’s Chym. Secr., 46. Filter and evaporate, and you shall have a Sulphurious Salt.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 235. Through kindled Fires from sulphurious Caverns.
1701. Warwick, Mem. Chas. I., 18. A sulphurious vapour flew from an unadvised mouth of Mr. Clement Cooke.
1727. W. Mather, Yng. Man’s Comp., 390. A remarkable Well, which being emptied, there presently breaks out a Sulphrious Vapour.
Hence † Sulphuriously adv.
1638. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (ed. 2), 31. Aden is seated low, sulphuriously [ed. 1677 sulphureously] shaded by a high barren Mountaine; whose brazen front scorching the miserable Towne, yeelds a perfect character of Turkish basenesse.
