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VAPIDLY.
2. A v»pid remark, idea, feature, etc.
1848 Biackw, Mae. LXIII. 266 Their pet historian.,
cannot make a single speech without dragging in.. some
vapidity about the Revolution Settlement. 1877 C. Grikib
Christ IV, (1879) 665 Teaching, .so searching and practical,
compared with the \'apidities of the Rabbis. xS8^ Pall
Mall G. \\ May 7 Those upon whom the crudities and
vapidities of the 'commission ' portraits. .jar.
Vapidly (vce'pidli), cutv* [f. as prec. + -ly 2,]
In a vapid manner.
1847 in Webster. 1880 * Olid a ' Moths xx. She seemed
to herself so useless, so stupidly, vapidly, frivqiously useless,
x888 Th'tes 24 Sept, 9/5 If they were become simply uninteliisible
or \*apidly dull, the wonder would be less.
VajpidneSfl (\TE-pidn6s). [f. as prec. + -ness.]
•« Vapiditt.
i7t7 Bailey, Vapidiuss, deadness, flatness, palledness of
liquors. i8ao Keats in Rosseiti Life (1887) 142 When once
a person has smoked the vapidness of the routine of society.
i8as-9 Mas- Sherwood Lady ofManor IV. xxviii. 392 The
vapidness, . . the languor and vexation, which accompany the
life of an unconverted man. 1907 Daily Chron, 12 Nov. 3/5
Her work.. in one at two instances sinks into vapidness.
Vapo-ffraphy. [In-eg. f. Vapour sb. : cf.
Vaporograph.] (See quot)
1898 Po^. Set. Monthly LIU. 860 The phenomena of
normal physical emanations from certain substances which
have the property of influencing the sensitive plate. These
phenomena have been variously labeled scotography, vapognuphy,
etc.
vapon, obs. So. form of Weapon.
Vapor, variant of Vapour.
Vaporability. Also vapour-, [f. next.]
Capacity of being vaporized.
a 1835 McCuLLOCH Attributes xlv. (1837) III. 184 The
fluidity which its own singular nature communicates and .
the vapourability dependent on that.
Vaporable (v/-p6rab'I).a. AIS04 vapotir(e)-.
[ad. med.L. vaporabilU: see Vapoue sb. and -able.
Cf. OF. vaporabU,']
1, Capable of being converted into vapour.
S39B Thkvisa Barth. De P. R. xi. iv. (Bodl. MS.), Heete of
beuen. .drawi^ it silfe to fuUe sotellich vaporable parlies of
water and of er^e. 1555 Eden Decades {P^vh.) 357 Eyther it is
not of vaporable nature, or to be of smaule quantitie. 1676
PhiL Trans. XI. 614 The first Beings or Embrlons of
mineral salts are nothing but \'apours, or juices not concreted,
totally vaporable. x68x Phil. Collect. XII. 8g By
reason of the fumes Lead usually emits, being a Quick
vaporable Metal. 1857 Gosse Omphalos xii. 355 There
would be no deposition from atmospnere if the water had
not first been carried upby evaporation ; and the vaporable
fluid is obtained from the moistened soil. 1893 Pall Mall
G. 12 Jan. 3/3 The vaporable parts ascending to the clear
ether of heaven.
t2. Capable of converting substances into
vapour. Obs.
i»8 Trevisa Barth. De P. R. xix. xi. (Bodl. MS.), White
comeb of vapoureable aier & watry )>at is in J>e membres .
for wnite comeb of bote aier & vaporable bestes be)> white
vnder be wombe. 1456 Sir G. Have Gov. Princes Wks.
(S.T.S.) II, ti8 The nature is mare vaporable and of better
digestioun to corrump and bray the metis.
tVaporary, sb. [ad. mod.L. vaporarium^ f.
L. vapor vapour. Cf. L. vaporarium a steam-pipe
in a bath.] A medical preparation used in a form
of vapour-bath.
1657 ToMLiNsoM Renou's Disp. 187 A vaporary consists
of the same things a semicupium is made of. i66x Lovell
Hist. Anim,